The North Carolina Republican Party has done a lot of work this year to limit early voting hours in black communities, and it’s officially very proud of its work.
In a press release issued on Monday, the North Carolina GOP boasted that black early voter turnout was down across the state, while also touting a surge in “Caucasian voters” as evidence that the state will remain under Republican control this election cycle.
“As a share of Early Voters, African Americans are down 6.0%, (2012: 28.9%, 2016: 22.9%) and Caucasians are up 4.2%, (2012: 65.8%, 2016: 70.0%),” the press release states.
The NC GOP also notes that the total share of young voters as a percentage of all early voters is down compared with 2012, while the share of older early voters is up over the same period.
Last week, Reuters obtained emails via a public relations request that showed the NC GOP officials had “lobbied members of at least 17 county election boards to keep early-voting sites open for shorter hours on weekends and in evenings – times that usually see disproportionately high turnout by Democratic voters.”
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I'm not surprised. Turkish government when it's right wing religious, does the same when more educated seculars are at their yearly holidays.
Also, Democratic party itself has made the dead vote, go look for it on goddamn google, and illegals.
Nothing unusual here. It's humanity that's fucked, not progressives or traditionalists.
Here in the UK, one can be fined £1000 for not being on the electoral registry.
We still use ballot papers - with an 'X' placed next to the MP/councillor's/MEP/decision of one's choice - placed in a ballot box.
'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'. That phrase exists for an extremely good reason.
The last general election: All of Hull's Labour MPs - including mine, Karl Turner - returned to Parliament with increased majorities.
I say Australia has it right, with making voting compulsory : just as it is to be on the electoral roll here in the UK.
I wonder what would've happened if not only being electorally registered was compulsory in the US, eh Pep...?!
Apparny it worked. A lot of people have been writing about how Trump won over working class voters (IMO like a cow voting for a butcher), but I wonder if this will be recognized for the effect of its tactics: Clinton may well have won without the vote suppression, email hacking, interference by the FBI, and long-running politically motivated congressional investigations. Maybe it is impossible to win without resorting to such tactics.
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS EVIL
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Except when it supports your side.
Why are liberal left of US are hypocritical swine 101.
@Atrocious Amphibian
What, you mean the Slate tweets? Apologies if I didn't notice them among the rest of your pathetic Gish Gallop. Make one point or make none at all, because I can only handle so much gloating stupidity at once.
Regarding said tweets, the answer is simple: different strokes, different blokes. You'll often see reputable magazines running two opinion pieces with contrasting views right next to each other, in fact; makes for interesting comparisons. Of course, with the Nazi rags you read the slightest deviation from the orthodoxy is considered a grave heresy, so I doubt any of that is comprehensible to you.
Uilleam:
>You'll often see reputable magazines running two opinion pieces with contrasting views right next to each other, in fact; makes for interesting comparisons.
Jesus fucking Christ. You just said that with a straight face.
each tweet was 4 year apart, and showing hypocrisy worse than anything I could think of.
You're all like pigs, grinning and wallowing in more shit the more I try washing you with truth.
@Atrocious Amphibian
each tweet was 4 year apart,
Exactly! Even if they'd been released on the same day, the difference in opinion would have been justifiable. Four years is more than enough time for the anti-electoral college writer to have forgotten the pro-electoral college article even existed. Oh, but of course - Nazis have no concept of individualism, do they? Nope, anything written on Slate is the product of a hive mind and two writers disagreeing is base hypocrisy /s
Oh, and hypocrisy? You mean like being a Turkish Jewish Nazi ?
The big problem is we let them get away with it.
There ought to be a provision in our laws that allows a second election when voter intimidation or voter suppression can be confirmed.
And anyone caught organizing voter intimidation or voter suppression should face a mandatory sentence of life without parole. There is no crime worse than damaging the integrity of democracy.
@ Pepe
I'm not Slate, and besides one paper can have different editors with different opinions. As for me, no hypocrisy here, I've disagreed with the electoral college ever since I read about it as a young boy.
Not that you care. You'll just go ahead and keep broadbrushing every liberal in what ever way flatters your opinions. There is too much of that from both sides. We seriously need to stop assuming that what one liberal or conservative person or news outlet says represents all of them.
>TheReasonator:
"The big problem is we let them get away with it.
There ought to be a provision in our laws that allows a second election when voter intimidation or voter suppression can be confirmed.
I'm not Slate, and besides one paper can have different editors with different opinions. As for me, no hypocrisy here, I've disagreed with the electoral college ever since I read about it as a young boy.
Not that you care. You'll just go ahead and keep broadbrushing every liberal in what ever way flatters your opinions. There is too much of that from both sides. We seriously need to stop assuming that what one liberal or conservative person or news outlet says represents all of them."
Quoted for truth.
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