Top NC Democrats want more information about GOP threats over a campus voting site

[RandySF]

North Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Anderson Clayton and N.C. House Democratic Leader Robert Reives said Wednesday the public needs to know who pressured the Republicans on the Jackson County Board of Elections to oppose a campus early voting site.

The pressure on Republican board members to vote against an early voting site at Western Carolina University this fall burst into public view this week.

Both GOP Board Chairman Bill Thompson and member Jay Pavey said at the Jackson board meeting Tuesday that Republicans in Raleigh told them to oppose it. Pavey said he was told he’d be removed from the county board if he didn’t vote the way the party wanted.

The unusual public disclosure of party coercion had Reives (D-Chatham) seeking more information, and asking whether Republicans in other counties faced similar pressure.



https://ncnewsline.com/2026/06/03/top-nc-democrats-want-more-information-about-gop-threats-over-a-campus-voting-site/

[mwmisses4289]

1. Good. Get their idiocy out in the open and into the light.