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Democracy NC: State Board meeting an “overall victory” for North Carolina voters

Democracy NC Statement on State Board of Elections Approvals of Early Voting Plans Voting Rights group calls yesterday's meeting an “overall victory” for North Carolina voters. RALEIGH, N.C. — Yesterday, in a 12-hour marathon meeting, the N.C. State Board of Elections resolved the contested Early Voting plans from 33 of the state’s 100 counties. In [...]

By | 2017-01-27T08:45:21-05:00 September 9th, 2016|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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Democracy NC Calls for “All Hands on Deck” After SCOTUS Denies Stay of Voting Law

DEMOCRACY NC STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT’S DENIAL OF STAY OF NC VOTING LAW WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court refused a request by the state of North Carolina to temporarily block part of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling striking down North Carolina's restrictive 2013 voting law. With today’s decision, a federal appeals court’s [...]

By | 2017-01-27T08:44:02-05:00 August 31st, 2016|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Tales From The Frontline, Uncategorized, Voter-Owned Elections, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments
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Democracy NC: Ruling Overturning Gerrymandered Legislative Districts a “Tremendous Victory”

A three-judge panel ruled Thursday afternoon that North Carolina legislators unconstitutionally used race when they drew legislative boundaries for state House and Senate members. The ruling, which overturned 28 N.C. House and Senate districts, is the latest federal ruling tossing district lines drawn by lawmakers. Statewide voting rights organization Democracy North Carolina applauded the ruling, calling [...]

By | 2017-01-27T08:40:36-05:00 August 11th, 2016|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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Democracy NC Highlights Need for Strong Early Voting Plans: 73,500 Extra Hours – More Voters, Needing More Time to Vote

Raleigh, N.C. – New figures released today during a Democracy North Carolina press conference show that North Carolina voters will need more time to cast ballots this fall, and they’ll face longer lines at the polls if action is not taken in the next 10 days by county and state officials. Democracy North Carolina, a [...]

By | 2017-01-27T08:39:42-05:00 August 10th, 2016|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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Victims of the New Election Law Say, “We Learned the Hard Way!”

PRESS ADVISORY PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY Democracy North Carolina is releasing new information about hundreds of voters who tried to vote in the May primary but were denied a chance to participate because of major changes in NC’s election law. The press conference includes the personal stories of a soldier, nurse, disabled senior, student, former felon, [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:16-05:00 September 10th, 2014|Media Feed & Press Releases, Our Issues, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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Registering the Homeless to Vote

This week, we visited the Samaritan Ministries in Winston-Salem, NC to register more homeless people to vote. We want all social classes to be fired up and ready to vote in the municipal elections this year. We also want voters to be excited and eager to vote in the 2014 state elections. It was interesting [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 July 29th, 2013|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2013, Tales From The Frontline, Winston-Salem|0 Comments
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Statement on HB-589, the Anti-Voting Bill

Late Thursday night, the NC General Assembly passed an elections bill that it is breathtaking in scope and radical in purpose. It makes the most regressive and sweeping changes to the core parts of our state’s election process in decades. In 56 pages, this redefines and restricts who can vote, where, when and how and [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 July 26th, 2013|Disclosure, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Our Issues, Pay to Play, Tales From The Frontline, Voter-Owned Elections, Voting Rights|7 Comments
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Pathways to Power in Wilmington

This past weekend, Rediedre and I had the opportunity to attend and aid with the Pathways to Power in Training in Wilmington. The two-day training was packed with issue-based conversations and creative team building activities designed to translate into tangible skills which advocates use to activate and mobilize their communities. One of the things I [...]

By | 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 July 24th, 2013|Democracy Summer, Democracy Summer 2013, Fayetteville, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments
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