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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNC - Let us suppress vote. SCOTUS - No.
The thing I finally realized about the GOP is that they have made the chilling calculation that they are willing to be viewed as massively dickish humans, and are OK with it, as long as they are in power. Power trumps (sorry) everything else.
To repeat - "I am a truly bad human being -- not just for myself, but impacting MANY people -- and that is OK."
This deal with the devil is why we can expect very little help w 45 unless forced by massive public outrage because of actual criminal indictments ... because the rest is all just uncomfortable optics. DICK = OUTRAGE = JUST FINE WITH IT
Democrats actually CARE what people think about them ... because they CARE ABOUT PEOPLE.
Anyway, this article shows just how depraved the NC GOP-lead legislature is willing to be. Basically, "You know, and WE know, that we are suppressing the vote. We know you will rightly label us a dicks. We're ok with it as long as 'THEY' DON'T SHOW UP TO VOTE."
The Nation ARTICLE: The Supreme Court Wont Reinstate the Countrys Worst Voter Suppression Law
... Today, in a big and unexpected win for voting rights, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, meaning that the countrys worst voter suppression law will remain blocked indefinitely.
Despite this important legal victory, North Carolina remains a cautionary tale for how low Republicans will stoop to suppress the vote.
Even after the Fourth Circuit called cuts to early voting as close to a smoking gun as we are likely to see in modern times, North Carolina Republicans brazenly cut early voting days and hours in local counties. The executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, Dallas Woodhouse, urged Republican-controlled election boards to make party line changes to early voting by adopting fewer early voting days, eliminating polling places on college campuses and prohibiting Sunday voting, when black churches hold Souls to the Polls mobilization drives.
The cynical strategy worked: black turnout decreased 16 percent during the first week of early voting because of long lines and fewer polling places. The North Carolina GOP bragged before Election Day that African American Early Voting is down 8.5% from this time in 2012. Caucasian voters early voting is up 22.5% from this time in 2012.
Despite this important legal victory, North Carolina remains a cautionary tale for how low Republicans will stoop to suppress the vote.
Even after the Fourth Circuit called cuts to early voting as close to a smoking gun as we are likely to see in modern times, North Carolina Republicans brazenly cut early voting days and hours in local counties. The executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, Dallas Woodhouse, urged Republican-controlled election boards to make party line changes to early voting by adopting fewer early voting days, eliminating polling places on college campuses and prohibiting Sunday voting, when black churches hold Souls to the Polls mobilization drives.
The cynical strategy worked: black turnout decreased 16 percent during the first week of early voting because of long lines and fewer polling places. The North Carolina GOP bragged before Election Day that African American Early Voting is down 8.5% from this time in 2012. Caucasian voters early voting is up 22.5% from this time in 2012.
OPENLY BRAGGED ABOUT SUPPRESSION = DICKS = DON'T CARE
But beware:
Beyond North Carolina, attacks on voting rights are going to get worse because of the establishment of President Trumps election integrity commission and a new conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Republicans lost a major battle in North Carolina but they wont stop fighting a longer war against democracy.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/the-supreme-court-wont-reinstate-the-countrys-worst-voter-suppression-law/
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