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"“Our Republican Board members should feel empowered to make legal changes to early voting plans, that are supported by Republicans,” Woodhouse wrote in an email obtained by The News & Observer. “Republicans can and should make party line changes to early voting.” (There’s little evidence this is true.) Woodhouse also said college students are not “entitled” to their own voting sites, and pushed for the abolition of Sunday voting. (Woodhouse’s cousin Eddie Woodhouse was the board member who wanted Wake County to end Sunday voting.) Sunday voting is a partisan flashpoint because black churches across the state have long organized “Souls to the Polls” drives, transporting churchgoers to vote early after Sunday services.
Under state law, county boards consist of two members of the governor’s political party and one of the opposition party. Because Governor Pat McCrory is a Republican, every county includes two Republicans and a Democrat, even in staunchly blue counties. That means a pair of Republicans who agree can push plans through on party-line votes, as Woodhouse said, but any plan that is not unanimous goes to the state board of elections for review, to ensure it aligns with the “geographic, demographic and partisan interests of the county.”
Hall, the voting advocate, blasted Woodhouse.
“What the Republican executive director was doing was despicable and outrageous and illegal. He’s basically advising his Republicans to take illegal action by being completely partisan. Board members take an oath that they are serving the public interest,” he said. “It’s a big mistake in providing this document that’s a smoking gun.”"
edit: source, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/north-carolina-voting/496415/
Fuck these people.
Under state law, county boards consist of two members of the governor’s political party and one of the opposition party. Because Governor Pat McCrory is a Republican, every county includes two Republicans and a Democrat, even in staunchly blue counties. That means a pair of Republicans who agree can push plans through on party-line votes, as Woodhouse said, but any plan that is not unanimous goes to the state board of elections for review, to ensure it aligns with the “geographic, demographic and partisan interests of the county.”
Hall, the voting advocate, blasted Woodhouse.
“What the Republican executive director was doing was despicable and outrageous and illegal. He’s basically advising his Republicans to take illegal action by being completely partisan. Board members take an oath that they are serving the public interest,” he said. “It’s a big mistake in providing this document that’s a smoking gun.”"
edit: source, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/north-carolina-voting/496415/
Fuck these people.
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