A report released today pinpoints potential hot spots in North Carolina where Tea Party-inspired volunteers may try to disrupt the upcoming election by questioning the legitimacy of voters, particularly at heavily African-American polling places. The report by the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights says there are 286 volunteers signed up with Texas-based [...]
The Associated Press reports: “A coalition of civil and voting rights groups alleges in a legal motion filed Friday that political districts approved by the majority-Republican North Carolina legislature disenfranchise black voters and asks a state court to declare the lines unconstitutional” – not for the November elections but for the future. Democracy North Carolina [...]
More is coming out about the shady activities of Nathan Sproul, a long-time Republican operative and the man behind Strategic Allied Consulting. Authorities in Florida yesterday began a criminal investigation into SAC’s activities after election officials in several counties found suspicious voter registration forms submitted by SAC employees. In many cases, the voter’s party affiliation [...]
Greg Flynn, ace investigator and blogger, uncovered the North Carolina ties of a well-connected voter registration outfit caught cheating in Florida. His work adds considerably depth to the unfolding story of Nathan Sproul’s Strategic Allied Consulting firm which, until last month, held multi-million-dollar contracts to conduct voter registrations drives for the Republican National Committee and state [...]
You can now preview your actual ballot for the November election online, at the website of the State Board of Elections. Use this link for registered voters; enter your first and last names only, as they appear on the registration rolls; enter your county if you have a relatively common name; don’t enter the birth [...]
North Carolina is not the only state where judges are elected in nonpartisan contests on a ballot full of partisan candidates. In Michigan, one Supreme Court candidate has found a way to call attention to the problem. She’s enlisted her sister’s co-stars from the “West Wing” hit series to cut a polished ad about getting [...]
Comedian Sarah Silverman has a wicked short video on YouTube about f**king voters in unpleasant ways. If her language seems offensive, what about the guts of what she’s describing? Nasty stuff.
Thanks to a unique law in North Carolina, more than 100,000 16 and 17 year olds have preregistered to vote over the past 32 months and about 63,000 of them will be 18 and automatically fully registered by November 6, 2012. In many tight races, these young voters could make a big difference; and an [...]
Voters in Wake County and elsewhere are getting letters saying they’re suspected of being dead, thanks to North Carolina’s version of True the Vote, the Tea Party-inspired voter purging outfit. WRAL has a chilling account, with links to earlier stories, about this latest chapter in the sometimes useful but mostly destructive work of the NC Voter Integrity [...]
The New York Times reports on the myriad lawsuits underway and yet to be filed that could determine the outcome of the 2012 election, with who knows how much delay after November 6. Are you ready for another 5-4 presidential election by the US Supreme Court? The intensity of a tight election can bring out [...]