Voter Suppression: North Carolina playing fast and loose with Voters' Rights

[Falsedawn]

https://thinkprogress.org/black-vot...er-last-minute-purges-9526858aa749#.francui5x

Black voters sue North Carolina over last-minute purges

The NAACP says the practice is disenfranchising thousands.

Three counties in North Carolina are canceling the voter registration of thousands of eligible residents— most of them African-American Democrats — just days before the 2016 election. On Monday, the North Carolina conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) sued the state and demanded an immediate stop to the practice, which they dubbed “a coordinated effort right out of the GOP playbook to suppress the black vote in the state.”

The lawsuit charges that Beaufort, Moore, and Cumberland counties are challenging voters’ eligibility with no other evidence than a single piece of mail that was sent to their home and bounced back as undelivered. Many of those challenged and flagged for purging, like James Edward Arthur Sr., have moved within the same county and remain legally allowed to vote. Others still live at their original registration address and fell victim to a simple postal-service error.

The lawsuit says North Carolina is violating the National Voter Registration Act, which bans the systemic removal of voters from the rolls in the final 90 days before an election. State officials have defended the practice, claiming that the challenges have been brought individually against thousands of people rather than in a systemic manner.

But the NAACP is also accusing Republicans of conducting a coordinated mailing campaign in the first place in order to challenge the voting eligibility of thousands of people who don’t receive the mailing. Shane Hubers, a Republican who ran for local office last year, challenged the registration of dozens of voters — the majority of them Democrats — in Beaufort County. In Cumberland County, a single individual used returned mail to challenge the registrations of 3,951 voters. In Moore County, N. Carol Wheeldon, the secretary of the local Republican Party, challenged approximately 400 registered voters.

The lawsuit also notes that a disproportionate number of those challenged are black. For instance, African Americans make up only 25.9 percent of the population in Beaufort County, but account for more than 65 percent of the voter eligibility challenges.

You all might remember North Carolina for wanting to restrict early voting after their voter ID program was struck down in federal court, but looks like they're back at it, rulings be damned.

So, what's the deal? For all the talk of the election being rigged, it sure looks like one group of people in particular are trying to invoke that into reality via voter caging (Which might I add is fucking illegal).

 

[Fawlty]

Jesus Christ.

 

[Hans Gercmiov]

All the dead people will even things out.

 

[TheStruggle]

Voter Purges always happen with Democrats look at what happened during the NY primary

 

[Rod1]

All the dead people will even things out.

So if it evens out will the Trump accept the results if he loses?

 

[Hans Gercmiov]

So if it evens out will the Trump accept the results if he loses?

Why the fuck are you asking me?

 

[berimBOWLoh]

we need more purges, just not voting ones.

 

[Rod1]

Why the fuck are you asking me?

 

[Falsedawn]

Voter Purges always happen with Democrats look at what happened during the NY primary

This is an idiotic stance and you know it.

So since an illegal purge occurred, this one is okay? They happen all the time amirite? I mean, we're just a little over a week out from the election, what's the issue?

Coming from a group so concerned with election fraud, this stance makes me think it's all just whining for when Dolan loses. Surely that's not what you're telling me.

 

[TheStruggle]

This is an idiotic stance and you know it.

So since an illegal purge occurred, this one is okay? They happen all the time amirite? I mean, we're just a little over a week out from the election, what's the issue?

Coming from a group so concerned with election fraud, this stance makes me think it's all just whining for when Dolan loses. Surely that's not what you're telling me.

I in no way condoned Voter Purges, I said it's not uncommon with Democrats in Democrat areas.


Everything else you said was deflection and projection on your part.

 

[Falsedawn]

I in no way condoned Voter Purges, I said it's not uncommon with Democrats in Democrat areas.


Everything else you said was deflection and projection on your part.

These are Democrats in a Republican area, so what now?

For someone not condoning voter purges, you sure are making a bunch of excuses for this one.

 

[Tekk]

Conservative silence is deafening.

 

[HomerThompson]

Super fucked up. Hopefully everyone is allowed to vote.

 

[Hit-N-Run]

Here's how elections are manipulated and stolen. Not voter fraud, but gerrymandering and voter suppression laws. NC has already been smacked down on it's voter ID laws because they were unconstitutional.

Republicans try to bring up voter fraud as the bogeyman of elections when they are the real ones fucking with the system.

 

[chubbman]

interdasting, whom would the blacks most likely be voting for?

 

[Hankooks]

Why can't they use their ids?

 

[TheStruggle]

These are Democrats in a Republican area, so what now?

For someone not condoning voter purges, you sure are making a bunch of excuses for this one.

Projecting again


The North Carolina Board of Elections said in a statement that the voter challenges were filed by “private citizens” and not elections officials. “Our independent agency administers state and federal election laws,” it said. “The statutes at issue are decades old and are common across the country and widely regarded as compatible with the National Voter Registration Act. If the plaintiffs are right, then most states are wrong.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

So if it evens out will the Trump accept the results if he loses?

Every indication is that he's gracious in defeat !

 

[Falsedawn]

Projecting again


The North Carolina Board of Elections said in a statement that the voter challenges were filed by “private citizens” and not elections officials. “Our independent agency administers state and federal election laws,” it said. “The statutes at issue are decades old and are common across the country and widely regarded as compatible with the National Voter Registration Act. If the plaintiffs are right, then most states are wrong.

Uh huh

"The lawsuit says North Carolina is violating the National Voter Registration Act, which bans the systemic removal of voters from the rolls in the final 90 days before an election."

The fact that the claims came from private entities doesn't invalidate the NVRA. This is exponentially true when it looks like this purge was spurred by voter caging, which again, is still illegal.

But i'm sure you'll have another excuse. I mean, this only counts what, the third time NC has tried to fuck with voters? I'm sure they were just joshing. Anything for Dolan, even election fraud I suppose.

 

[TheStruggle]

Uh huh

"The lawsuit says North Carolina is violating the National Voter Registration Act, which bans the systemic removal of voters from the rolls in the final 90 days before an election."

The fact that the claims came from private entities doesn't invalidate the NVRA. This is exponentially true when it looks like this purge was spurred by voter caging, which again, is still illegal.

But i'm sure you'll have another excuse. I mean, this only counts what, the third time NC has tried to fuck with voters? I'm sure they were just joshing. Anything for Dolan, even election fraud I suppose.

Typical Liberal, quoting laws without reading them

"The removal of voters for non-voting or for having moved can only be done after meeting certain requirements provided in the Act. The Act allows for removal of voters from registration lists when they have been convicted of a disqualifying crime or adjudged mentally incapacitated, where such removals are allowed by state law."



So I wonder is the picture changes when we look at the voters