GOP tries to enshrine republican control of NC election board into law.

[DetlefK]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nc-gop-trying-again-to-cement-control-of-local-elections-boards-during-election-years

Even after a court called such a scheme unconstitutional, the GOP-controlled North Carolina legislature will try again to design county election boards to guarantee that Republicans have the chair in election years.

The provision is included in election legislation released Monday evening that walked back some of the power-grabbing moves the legislature attempted in 2016, after Democrat Roy Cooper (pictured above) won the governorship. The legislature, however, is holding on to a provision that set up a rotation system for county boards that would guarantee that Republicans controlled the county boards in years with statewide elections.

The new legislation would, in odd-numbered years, make the chair a board member who is from “the political party with the highest number of registered affiliates,” which are the Democrats in North Carolina. In even years, when statewide elections are held, the chair would be a board member who is from “political party with the second highest number of registered affiliates,” i.e. the GOP, under the legislation.

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility

[Dave in VA]

2. Wouldn't the Governor

have to sign this BS for it to become law?

[appal_jack]

3. Repubs have a veto-proof majority in NC until January.

Governor Cooper is no dummy, and he and other NC Democrats have fought back unconstitutional power-grabs like this before over the last two years.

Still, it's an odious last move by the Republican supermajority of the present, and fighting it in the courts will take precious time and resources that could be better spent elsewhere, if the Legislature was actually working for the people instead of the minority Party...

-app