NC Reoublicans desperately pull every shenanigans it can.
But they will LOSE!
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NC's early voting shenanigans are likely one reason for lower Duke student turnout at the polls
Ever since Reconstruction, there have been North Carolina officials eager to suppress the vote. But over the years, court decisions and federal legislation haveforced them to get more innovative in their methods.
This year, they’re at it again, as has been frequently noted in the “This week in the war on voters” feature and other reports, including some like this. Among the targets: students. The county election board moved a Duke University on-campus early voting site to a site that is a 20-minute bus ride away.
Moving the site was not done for reasons of frugality or practicality. Rather, it was partisan suppression.
On July 29, the 4th Circuit Court struck down North Carolina’s law that included a strict voter ID requirement, ended same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting and pre-registration, and cut back on early voting days, all of which the court ruling said was “passed with racially discriminatory intent” and “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
The court ordered that North Carolina keep the 17 days of early voting the state had earlier established rather than cut them back to 10. Most of the state’s 100 counties not only complied with the letter of the law but with its spirit as well, as this report shows. Total early voting sites are up, total site hours are up, early voting hours outside of conventional work hours are up, and Sunday hours are up.
But in a few counties, where the “good old days” are not forgotten but continued by innovative vote suppressors, officials went along with the appeals court on the total number of days but cut back the number of hours and/or the number of sites. Surprise! The seven counties that cut both have much blacker populations than the state as a whole.
Why? Orders.
Dallas Woodhouse, the executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party delivered the message in August:
“Our Republican [county election] Board members should feel empowered to make legal changes to early voting plans, that are supported by Republicans,” Woodhouse wrote in his email to board members. “Republicans can and should make party line changes to early voting.”
He wasn’t the only one to take such a nakedly partisan approach. NC GOP 1st Congressional District Chairman Garry Terry told county election board members that they “are expected to act within the law and in the best interest of the party”:
“We will never discourage anyone from voting but none of us have any obligation in any shape, form or fashion to do anything to help the Democrats win this election. [...] Left unchecked, they would have early voting sites at every large gathering place for Democrats.”
Not hard to figure out who that means. Although the percentages aren’t as high as they are among African Americans, the majority of voting students on the Duke campus also have a history of casting their ballots for Democrats. And in the view of Woodhouse and Terry, keeping as many of them away from the polls as possible is a party obligation.
While suppression is being cast aside in much of North Carolina, some officials just can’t give it up—even under court order. They must be made to.
Republicans suppressing early vote in NC -- Same as it ever was.
