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.
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.
A bill has been filed in the NC Senate, “SB 38,” that would make it easier to “challenge” absentee voting, similar to the challenge filed by GOP attorneys in Bladen County under the name of […]
In 2011, the NC GOP used a high-priced private consultant and sophisticated software to draw North Carolina’s electoral districts to suit themselves. There are now at least five ongoing cases based on North Carolina’s electoral district maps. The two NC gerrymandering cases with actions currently pending before SCOTUS are “Harris v. McCrory” and “Covington v. North Carolina”.
By the power invested in me as a person with a keyboard and internet connection, I hereby declare that January 20, 2017 is “Fund Freedom Friday”!
In a democracy, the people must be included, not excluded, from public discourse and legislative deliberations.
North Carolinians voted overwhelmingly to elect Mike Morgan to NC State Supreme Court. Now we are hearing again that the North Carolina General Assembly and Ex-Governor may deliberately undermine North Carolinians by adding two new Governor-appointed Judges to the State Supreme Court.
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.
NC Election Day info: WHERE to vote, WHAT you need, WHO is running in your district.
Here is the lowdown on NC’s JUNE 7 special election: After a bit of legal wrangling, North Carolinians can VOTE for a State Supreme Court Justice in a contested NC 2nd seat election and candidates to represent NC in the US House of Representatives. Get the 411 and get yourself to a polling place.
