“Lawyers for North Carolina countered that state data shows only a sliver of names have been removed from county rolls in the past two years — fewer than 7,000 statewide out of 6.8 million registered voters.”
This from the same people who are screeching that even 1 brown fraudulent vote is one too many because it cancels out disenfranchises 1 white legitimate vote.
Bitzer believes the difference is largely due to less enthusiasm for Democrat Hillary Clinton’s race against Republican Donald Trump than for Obama’s 2012 re-election, but the uneven rollout of voting sites also contributed. He said he wasn’t familiar enough with the new NAACP allegations to weigh their effect.
Bad analysis or bad-faith analysis? The NAACP allegations can’t be that unusual to a professional observer of NC politics.
I read somewhere that even when the courts stuck down some of these state laws, the repubs haven’t changed a thing. This lawsuit and ruling might be too late to make a difference to this election.
Under state law, any voter can challenge another county resident’s registration, resulting in a hearing where the challenger presents evidence, according to a state legal filing. If local officials find probable cause, the challenged voter is notified of a subsequent hearing. A voter who doesn’t rebut the evidence can be removed.
Very devious system set up to prey upon the poor and minorities too busy and/or scared to show up to protest the denial of one of their inalienable rights.
Really too bad Republicans are incapable of shame. At some point, like Wall Street bankers, we need to put some of these people in jail. Still waiting on the bankers…
And yet John Roberts and Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas get to vote.
Oh, just to clarify: if this is like the other caging cases where the GOP has been involved, this is not regular mail that gets returned to sender. It’s a letter that’s registered or otherwise requires the addressee to sign for it. So if the person isn’t home during the day and/or doesn’t want to bother going down to the post office to pick up a letter from an organization they know they have no interest in, that counts as “undeliverable”.
How many coincidences does it take before a judge that supposedly has good judgment comes down hard on these despicable bastards?
They’re literally using every trick in the book and defying every law and they get out of it by swearing on their bibles, W…T…F…
My wife’s last US address was in NC, she applied for an absentee ballot over a month ago. Result: Crickets.
“I have to think at this point it’s the top of the ticket,” Bitzer said.
Hey, doc, don’t forget to consider the possibility that the top of the other ticket will provide some of the motivation that isn’t provided by enthusiasm for Clinton.
Now c’mon, be fair. They did drop the “ordeal by fire” clause.
“Only” 7000 so far.
“Seems” insane?
It IS insane that any person can “challenge” any voters right to vote for ANY reason at ANY time. No evidence required.
I actually do agree a bit with the identity politics. I think the turn out for AA with Obama was higher than it is going to be for other Democratic candidates. Does not mean it will not be at normal levels, but they were going to be higher with Obama. Does not help to have the other stuff happening too.