North Carolina was supposed to join a national voter roll maintenance program. Now, state Republicans want to nix that plan, thanks to right-wing conspiracy theories about the organization that have escalated in the past year.
For the sake of being FRIST!, I’ll just go way OT to say that MM’s take on the looming default is right on. It unpacks what Janet Yellen means by “catastrophe”. It might as well be a meteor headed for earth.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-real-people
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
ERIC interferes with snowbirds’ ability to vote in Florida and in their home state.
Kevin to Mitch: “Lets keep going.”
The rest of America, locked in the trunk: (Furious pounding and screaming)
Kevin is driving, but Matt Gaetz has his foot on Kevin’s.
Yay, Governor Fleece Vest, loathsome POS. Bob McDonnell, a Republican governor who was one of the originators of ERIC, would now be considered Antifa.
Just sitting here wondering when, not if, the NC State Board of Elections does discovers the next voter who voted in NC and another state if the R legislators that voted to block the effort to join can be:
-charged as accessories
-billed for part of the costs incurred by the state to investigate, charge, and convict the person who voted twice
State rep doesn’t want personal information shared
OK
Name, address, phone number are publicly available. From that much more can be found on anyone.
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I swear, TPM is terrible for my blood pressure. Our country is so goddam stupid.
So how many states have dropped ERIC now? And besides them all being red states what else to do they have in common? Or legislation that is pending or passed in their legislative session?
Time for each side to “flesh it out”
NC just voted to override their governor’s veto of the 12-week abortion ban, so what else would one expect? They can expect a nice brain drain over the next 5 years … who in their right mind would choose to raise a family in a red state?
claimed to a local radio station that the legislation was driven by concerns from constituents about the security of their personal information rather than politics.
If they have concerns of government agencies sharing personal information, nobody tell them about E-Verify! They might refuse to use that too! /s
Somehow we managed to raise a son and now have a grandson while inhabiting a very red state. Mebbe I’m just nutz
The GOP is a minority party that wants to rule forever. They want to keep their options open for cheating during elections. Thus, they are opposed to anything that might make their elections more secure, and to anything that would help expose any actual cheating they might someday engage in. Gateway Pundit has merely provided the latest pretext for their insistence on leaving their elections vulnerable.
This is like the bank president firing all the security guards because he’s planning to rob the place tomorrow.
Pre-Trump, red-state politics were regressive, but not necessarily crazy (though there were exceptions).
Post-Trump, every red-state seems to want to one-up each other on who is the most anti-woke, trigger-the-libs, racist/sexist state in the union.
I think its going to be increasing difficult for anyone left-of-center to continue living in those states, particularly if you are a child-bearing age woman, unless the politics change. The Republican rot goes deep and it’s going to fall hardest on the blue oasis in red states.
I think TPM and other reporting on this are getting it wrong. We hear that Soros type conspiracy theories are why these GOP states want out. I doubt it. My bet is they wanted out to clear the table for more voter suppression. Much easier to do if eyes outside of your control are kicked away. The conspiracy theories were needed to justify what was wanted long before they existed.
It worked too.
Well, there are few states to move to that the insane rightwing has not taken over.
Didn’t Republicans start ERIC in the first place? This is about Republican power subverting democracy pure and simple, dressed up for the rubes as conspiracy theories.
Technically, Republicans didn’t start it, but they jumped on it very early.
It gave them the thin bipartisan pretext for purging their voter rolls. Quite ironic that they’ve turned on the very program they’ve used extensively. I’m not going to shed any tears for ERIC.