NC House Republicans rolled out their long-awaited photo ID bill today, complete with a press conference and an initial round of responses from ID opponents. At its core, H-589 follows the model of the Republican bill (H-351) that Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed in 2011; it says all voters who go to the polls must [...]
Today was the final day for state Senators to file new bills – and many of them seemed to be competing for who could file the meanest, nastiest bill. In the area of elections, freshman Sen. Bill Cook (R-Beaufort Co.) filed a bill appropriately numbered S-666 that would take away the parent’s tax deduction for [...]
This week ends on Good Friday with a press conference in a church, sponsored by the NAACP, Democracy NC and others, pointing out the fraud of state legislators trying to steal people’s right to vote by manipulating the election system – yet justice will rise triumphant! The respond to these hostile bills filed earlier this week [...]
In case you’ve been waiting to see the much anticipated “Screw the Voter Act of 2013,” it was filed today by Rep. Edgar Starnes, NC House Majority Leader. This is not the voter ID bill, that’s coming later. This is actually a bill to Promote Voter Fraud! House Bill 451 creates new barriers to Early Voting, which [...]
In my last post you may recall that I attempted to answer the question: "What exactly is an organizer anyway?!" I discussed two on-going campaigns against the influence of big money in politics, and I didn’t want to leave readers hanging on how those turned out. The campaign against the Duke-Progress Energy rate hikes rages on [...]
North Carolina seems poised to become the next state to pass a controversial voter photo ID law despite overwhelming opposition at a public hearing held in Raleigh this week. Supporters say voter ID is needed because of the imminent threat voter fraud poses to our democracy, with scores of illegally cast ballots cancelling out legitimate votes. However, [...]
Dozens of North Carolinians stepped up to the microphone at a public hearing yesterday to lambast a proposal that sounds too reminiscent of the old poll tax and literacy test that kept their parents and grandparents from voting. On the other hand, the photo ID proposal is common sense to many whites with little understanding [...]
Here’s a statement from Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina: Today, the NC Republican House leadership announced a process to hear comments from the public and move toward adoption of legislation that would require voters to show a photo ID before voting, if they vote in person. Legislators say that the bill will [...]
True the Vote likes to portray its mission as exposing voter fraud and protecting election integrity. Improvements can be made in the election system, but too often vigilante protectors wind up creating more fraud than they prevent. Case in point is a new report from True the Vote that aims to debunk “the myth of [...]
The Election Law Blog features lawyerly commentary on the yesterday’s slugfest in the US Supreme Court over the Voting Rights Act . It looks like the Voting Rights Act lost based on the nasty questions and remarks by the majority of justices. For more coverage, you can scroll to the previous or following pages of [...]