The impact of last year’s crop of voter suppression laws is showing up in various states in bizarre and disastrous ways. The Colbert Report profiles a Florida teacher charged with voter fraud for registering her students and failing to get the forms to the elections agency within 48 hours instead of the old 10-day deadline. [...]
The US Census Bureau is out with its biennial post-election survey of who voted - and who didn't. You can see breakdowns of voting in the 2010 election by race, gender, education level, occupation, and so forth, often by state. For example, nationally, people in families that earned $100,000 or more were twice as likely to [...]
For North Carolinians concerned about the maze of bills in the General Assembly designed to make voting harder, here’s a link to a Democracy NC factsheet that provides an update of each bill’s status. The NC General Assembly is set to reconvene in November, when it could take up any of these bills – or [...]
Here’s an important announcement if you’re connected to a NC high school – as a student, parent, teacher, staff member or administrator. County boards of elections are gearing up to fulfill a new requirement that they conduct voter registration drives in all high schools during September, which is Citizens Awareness Month in North Carolina. Some [...]
The weeks have flown by and it seems crazy that we now find ourselves in week 7 of the internship. Eastern North Carolina has surely kept us busy. Our work week this week started with a block party on Sunday hosted by the SCLC. We set up a table to do voter registration at this [...]
Join Democracy North Carolina and others on Wednesday, July 13, in Raleigh at the Respect Our Vote Rally. Good speakers, good friends, good cause, and a good time to say No to partisan attacks on your voting rights. In addition to scheming to override Gov. Perdue’s veto of the photo ID bill, conservative lawmakers will [...]
Another week in Charlotte… Our week started with a planning day. We went to the office and set our goals on the table then later we made phone calls to prepare for our tour stop that was to begin the next day. Tuesday morning called for our full and undivided attention as we made our [...]
According to a new analysis by Rock the Vote, only three states (Washington, Iowa and Montana) have better policies to help young people participate in elections than North Carolina. We tie with Oregon in fourth place and 45 states rank below us, with neighbors South Carolina and Virginia tied for dead last! This Voting System [...]
To big applause, Speaker Thom Tillis told NC Republicans at Saturday’s convention that this week he will push through legislation requiring voters to show a government photo ID each time they vote. The bill has been stalled for months as more evidence piled up about it being a waste of tax money and a partisan [...]
A trio of state Senators introduced a bill this week that hits each of the goals of the Art Pope-Civitas-Americans for Prosperity agenda for voting: Senate Bill 657 would kill pre-registration for teenagers, repeal Same Day Registration, cut down the days and hours for in-person Early Voting, cripple out-of-precinct provisional voting, but allow organized campaigns [...]