August 20, 2013 – 9:28 am
Oh, wait, sorry, Jonathan Chait, another in a long line of Liberal race baiters and grievance mongers, doesn’t bother to mention Obama’s homestate and their voting restrictions, but instead whines about North Carolina in completely raaaaacist terms Modern Vote Suppression Better Than Jim Crow, Still Pretty Bad A pervasive sense of racial victimization has afflicted […]
August 15, 2013 – 7:50 am
Since the new NC voter law, which includes requiring voter ID, shortens the number of early voting days, eliminates same day registration, and does away with straight party voting, liberals have been doing their typical freakout dance. They’re typical headline and/or article pushes the “voter suppression” and “disenfranchisement” memes. Here’s the Raleigh N&O Editorial Board […]
July 23, 2013 – 2:22 pm
The NC Senate has proposed a few simple voting changes Senate Republican leaders are planning to take a voter ID bill and add provisions that cut early voting by a week, repeal same-day registration, allow counties to limit Sunday voting, end pre-registration of 16- and 17-year-olds and end straight-ticket voting. Other provisions increase the maximum […]
June 26, 2013 – 8:29 am
I forget who wrote the Tweet yesterday, they come so quick, but it went something like “If they can drive down to the polling place, they can drive down to get an ID” (WRAL) Voter identification legislation in North Carolina will pick up steam again now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down part […]
June 18, 2013 – 4:02 pm
Is it any wonder Ted Cruz is so darned popular with Conservatives? He stands up for, in this case, law and order (via Phineas on Twitter (make sure you follow him) (Daily Caller) Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will propose an amendment to the comprehensive immigration reform bill that would allow states to require ID before […]
September 7, 2012 – 4:48 pm
And you’re a big racist, so says David W. Blight in a NY Times op-ed SUPPRESSING the black vote is a very old story in America, and it has never been just a Southern thing. In 1840, and again in 1841, the former Frederick Bailey, now Frederick Douglass, walked a few blocks from his rented […]
September 3, 2012 – 3:17 pm
Good thing we require ID to vote in NC….oh, right, dismal failure Dem Gov Bev Perdue vetoed that (Raleigh N&O) A Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to […]
August 6, 2012 – 10:48 am
Yet another reason as to the need for voters to present ID at the poll (The Blaze) A nonpartisan election integrity group has sent legal notices to 160 counties across the U.S. that it says have more voters on its registration rolls than actual live, eligible voters — and thus represent potential hotbeds for election […]
July 25, 2012 – 8:15 am
Why? Because some states require voters to provide legitimate identification that shows that “hey, I’m me!” It’s not like we need ID for practically everything. It’s not like Democrats have called for even more draconian registration and identification to purchase a handgun. Do you want to purchase certain cold medicines? More than likely, you will […]
July 14, 2012 – 11:30 am
As Sweetness and Light points out, the AP seems a bit bemused by this The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston’s name was complete, as was her Seattle address. Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998. A group called […]
