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Related: About this forumVoter Suppression Helped Pave The Way To A Thom Tillis Victory In North Carolina
I personally waited close to an hour to vote in Winston-Salem, another one of North Carolinas historically Democratic-leaning cities, and, at this location, African-Americans were repeatedly told it would be a two-hour wait.
All of these problems add up to fewer people voting, and election results skewered towards Republicans, who designed the laws. According to Weiser, in 2010, 200,000 voters cast ballots during the early voting days, which were cut by Tilliss law. In 2012, 700,000 voted during those days; this number accounted for more than a quarter of all of the votes cast African-Americans that year. Weiser writes, In 2012, 100,000 North Carolinians, almost one-third of whom were, African-American, voted using same day registration, which was not available this year.
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The impact of North Carolinas voter ID law has already been felt. This impact will only grow more marked as it will be even tougher for minorities to vote come 2016. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is the harsh voter ID law will have a chilling effect on voting in North Carolina that will be felt for years to come.
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Warpy
(112,997 posts)What is killing Democrats is how all the Evangelical preachers are tucked neatly into the GOP's ass pocket. I knew when Stupid rammed through his "faith based dollars" that there would be massive kickbacks from preachers who simply never had it so good.
You'd be shocked at the level of ignorance among those preachers and their faithful. It's what happens when ignorant people "get called to the ministry" the easy way, charisma the only thing that puts butts in the pews. It's one reason I left the south, the bullshit just got to be too much to cope with on a daily basis.
Voter suppression is something the republicans do TO voters. TO people who just want to vote.
What you bring here is just warpy, measly politics.
I don't get why anyone would want to downplay voter suppression, like you do.
had a hotline for anyone who ran into this kind of problem. I hope that at least a few folks who were prevented from voting got in touch with their local NAACP branch about their troubles.