For What and Why are You an Activist?
I was asked the question, “For what and why are you an activist?” My answer is, I am an activist for fair elections because in order to get the change we want to see in […]
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Open Letter From North Carolina
I am writing from North Carolina to ask for your help defending our right to vote by opposing Trump nominee Thomas Farr’s appointment to be a Federal Judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina. […]
The Call is Coming from Inside the House: The Threat to Election Integrity in North Carolina
NC legislators want you to think our electoral process is under attack, and it is – but they are the ones attacking it.
This One Weird Trick for Fair Voting Districts will Change Your Life
North Carolina voters must play an active role in redistricting reform if we are to have fair maps in North Carolina. The only path for redistricting reform goes through the North Carolina state legislature – which means NC voters must demand fair districts from candidates and representatives.
Supreme Court: No Word on NC Gerrymandering Cases. Still.
North Carolina has had gerrymandered voting districts maps held to be unconstitutional since 2011. And today the Supreme Court again had nothing to say about it.
( ( But hey – why should the Supreme Court care? It is just our basic constitutional rights, civil liberties and ability to have fair elections at stake! So what if our state legislature want to spray hog feces on us and run over us with cars?) )
Talk to your NC Legislators about Fair Voting Maps
What should I say to my North Carolina state legislator about Fair Voting Districts? Explaining why having Fair Voting Districts is important to you in your own words will be the most meaningful. Knowing how […]
North Carolina: State of Litigation
The current extremist super-majority in the North Carolina General Assembly has systematically attacked fair elections to the point that the state legislature no longer represents the will of the people of North Carolina. These unpatriotic attacks on American Democracy have resulted in multiple court cases, costing North Carolina taxpayers millions of dollars. We need fair elections, including making the process of drawing electoral maps impartial and transparent, so that the North Carolina government is of, by and for the people.
North Carolina Deserves #FairMaps
North Carolina is an oligarchy disguised as a representative democracy. Gerrymandering gives the illusion that the people in control have popular support. The party drawing the map can design the districts so that their party will almost always win, even if fewer people vote for them. The NC legislature has rigged the game so that they will always win, no matter how much North Carolina looses.
NC’s New Governor Acts to Withdraw Challenge to Voting Rights
North Carolina’s “monster” voting law imposed a number of voting restrictions and was struck down by the US 4th Cir. Court of Appeals, which held that the law was “enacted with racially discriminatory intent in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and § 2 of the Voting Rights Act”. Ousted former NC governor McCrory appealed it to the US Supreme Court a few days before he left office.
I Went to the State Board of Elections Meeting, and Guess What Happened Next?
This administrative meeting had everything: The NC GOP’s star witness “pleading the 5th”, reports of meeting in a van parked in the Burger King Parking lot, calls from “Steve from McCrory’s campaign” which magically confer attorney-client privilege, and so so much more.
