"I'm really not interested in joining Murder Incorporated"
I guess you could say I’m a rifle guy. But today I drew a line in the sand.Let me start this story by explaining that I’m a recreational marksman...and have been for more than half a century now. I’m...
View ArticleVox says "It's official: Lamb wins." Uhh, no...no, it's not 'official'
I’m never surprised when I meet regular folks who have not the vaguest notion of how elections are administered, or what state and federal laws and constitutions have to say about election matters.I’m...
View ArticleLeaked memo reveals North Carolina GOP panic over Dems flipping the state...
An email circulated last Thursday by Matt Bales, political director for the NC state legislature’s GOP House caucus (and quickly leaked to the tealiban Daily Haymaker blog) reveals a state party in...
View ArticleMy senator is a Republican. And for once, that's a good thing.
I don’t usually pay much attention to calls for me to email or phone my members of Congress, because two of the three are rabid Republicans and they could care less about my progressive opinions. Maybe...
View ArticleSex workers, bribes and data theft. Meet Sen. Thom Tillis's secret weapon:...
News this morning from McClatchy via Raleigh’s News & Observer:Tillis and NC Republicans paid $345,000 to the data firm that’s now banned from FacebookThe story prompted me to drop my senator, Thom...
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In NC, election hacking, voter caging and poll book purges meet new...
Starting now, voter suppression has a new and technologically sophisticated foe in the battleground state of North Carolina.Like many southern states, North Carolina is plagued by voter suppression...
View ArticleSo you want to do a high-impact voter registration drive? Do the numbers,...
Humans are territorial animals, and it’s natural for us to stick to our own turf (except, of course, when raiding another pack’s territory). But I would suggest that, if you seek to register new...
View ArticleIn tomorrow's NC primary, 1 of every 32 would-be voters will be turned away...
Some forms of voter suppression — like gerrymandering and voter ID laws — are so easy to understand and obviously malicious that they are widely debated and vigorously resisted by voting rights...
View ArticleSenate Intel Committee clutches its pearls (and drops the ball) in new...
The long-awaited summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee (led by Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC) investigation of Russian attempts to hack the 2016 election, along with the committee’s recommendations,...
View ArticleElection integrity is always under attack. Now grassroots tech is coming to...
It’s not exactly news that America’s long experiment in representative democracy has always faced enemies, working in darkness, who seek to undermine it by sabotaging elections...most frequently via...
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Can blue NC shake off its red vote suppressors in November? Five clues from...
It just might be that as North Carolina goes this November, so may go America in 2020.That’s because this fundamentally blue(ish) state is currently held in thrall by GOP state legislators who are...
View ArticleA thousand Russian hackers can't be wrong....
Here at NC-GoVote, every day now we’re witnessing ever-more-frequent...and ever more technologically sophisticated...cybersecurity probes from hackers in Russia and other former Soviet Union states. So...
View ArticleThe Republican war on Early Voting is on in swing-state North Carolina
In a ritual that’s as certain as death and taxes, Republicans here in North Carolina are once again mounting their biennial jihad against Early Voting — and this year with a new weapon.NC Republicans...
View ArticleWhat's up with those unaffiliated voters, anyway? Lately, they're turning blue.
As elsewhere across the country, in North Carolina unaffiliated voters (sometimes called ‘independents’) are by far the fastest growing segment of the electorate. Here in the Tar Heel State they’ve...
View ArticleIn a first, no voter caging in North Carolina so far this year. We're...
Voter caging is the practice of sending mass direct mailings to registered voters by non-forwardable mail, then compiling “caging lists” from the returned mail in order to challenge [the addressees’]...
View ArticleNorth Carolina's November election results may be decided this Sunday, Aug....
“There’s no such thing as an ‘off-year’ election!” -Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.This one’s for all the marbles here in North Carolina.Among races of national significance, NC Democrats have solid...
View ArticleBending the arc: Anita Earls' critical road to justice in the South
The choices facing battleground North Carolina’s voters this November look like America’s in miniature — from opportunities to unseat key U.S. House members to the very real possibility of breaking the...
View ArticleLet Hurricane Florence's survivors VOTE!
1.2 million voters living (or dying) in North Carolina's 18 Hurricane Florence disaster counties — many of them African Americans — will find it nearly impossible to vote this fall. Homes are...
View ArticleA civil rights giant passes: Rosanell Eaton, 1921 - 2018
It has not yet been reported in the media to my knowledge, but I have it from family friends that Rosanell Eaton of Louisburg, North Carolina, passed on yesterday, at the age of 97.In a state haunted...
View ArticleThis is what election fraud looks like
The citizens of North Carolina’s 9th U.S. Congressional District are without representation in Congress as I write, while state officials investigate allegations of election fraud in the November...
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This is who all those 'independent' voters are...and why Democrats should pay...
As a data scientist, the time I served on a North Carolina campaign committee in 2018 was an eye-opener, revealing just how far behind the curve the state’s Democrats are when it comes to using data...
View ArticleCheckmates: How the Booker, Warren, Harris & Gillibrand camps worked...
There’s a lot more to online political advertising than just coming up with a compelling message and eye-catching graphics. Given a limited budget, and facing the critical need (at this early point in...
View ArticleGOP going down for third time in NC-09 election fraud hearing
We’ve just completed day three of the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ hearing to decide whether to certify Mark Harris (R) as the winner over Dan McCready (D) in NC-09 despite compelling...
View ArticleStroke of Genius: How alleged election fraudster Mark Harris lived to fight...
The fourth and final day of evidentiary hearings by the North Carolina State Board of Elections into election fraud in the NC-09 race between Mark Harris (R) and Dan McCready (D) more than lived up to...
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Send lawyers, popcorn, and money. The NC09 do-over election is going to...
When disgraced Baptist preacher and alleged election fraud pay-master, Mark Harris (R), issued his unsurprising statement today announcing he would not seek the GOP’s re-nomination for the upcoming...
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The GOP's impossibly bad options for a new NC09 candidate. Part I: Gov. Pat...
By all rights, North Carolina’s 9th congressional district should be one of the most reliably Republican seats in the House of Representatives. After all, the seat’s last Democratic holder, the...
View ArticleDon't rat us out: GOP pol bails out accused election fraudster, McCrae...
WBTV (Charlotte NC) reporter Nick Ochsner tweets that McCrae Dowless, the accused operative at the center of the NC09 election fraud scandal, has been bailed out of the Raleigh detention center by...
View ArticleIn a darkening age, the question of the Maundy
On my way out the door with MsDawg to attend our church’s Maundy Thursday service, I thought I’d reprint one of my all-time favorite diaries tonight. Maundy Thursday is certainly the most misunderstood...
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Leaked voting machine passwords add to North Carolina's growing tally of...
When it comes to election irregularities, North Carolina is the new Florida.First there was the mini-disaster on Election Day 2016, in North Carolina’s bluest county by far, Durham. E-pollbook...
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Voting machine password leak in North Carolina grows murkier the more we learn
Last week’s disclosure regarding the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ 2018 leak of touchscreen voting machine passwords just got a lot more confusing.Well-regarded cybersecurity analyst Chris...
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On cusp of historic election security vote, NC State Board of Elections falls...
If you’re a supporter of the “hand-marked paper ballots” movement, you should be keeping a close eye on increasingly bizarre election security developments in North Carolina right now.SWING STATE NORTH...
View ArticlePolitical Malware: How a GOP website disenfranchises North Carolina (and...
Reprinted from EQVAnalytics.com, with permissionGoing door-to-door to disenfranchise North Carolina absentee-by-mail voters is so 2018.Perhaps that's why this year the GOP has a web-based tool that...
View ArticleVictory! We stopped a Republican National Committee trojan malware op dead in...
Yesterday at EQV Analytics we published (and reprinted later here at Daily Kos) an exposé of the malware-riddled trojan horse website paid for and operated by the Republican National Committee:...
View Article'Raging Blue Grannies' dominating early voting in NC09's do-over election....
Something extraordinary is happening in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional district.Held since 1963 by Republicans (most recently Robert Pittenger), the district is in the midst of a do-over election...
View ArticleGoogle Alerts and the propaganda wars
Google Alerts is my poor-man’s LexisNexis. It’s Google’s free alerting service (via email) for news and other web content. I use it, for instance, to alert me daily to new news related to selected...
View ArticleIn North Carolina, an inspiring Black woman Senate candidate takes the lead
In battleground North Carolina, a political contest of historic proportions is taking shape – one that will help determine the names of both the next president and the next Senate majority leader. At...
View ArticleSuper Tuesday's choice: Six reasons in North Carolina
In battleground North Carolina, Democrats face a defining moment a few weeks from today: the March 3rd primary. Its outcome will help determine the answers to the two most pressing political questions...
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Right-wing Judicial Watch threatens lawsuits to force poll book purges in...
An article tucked deep in the back pages of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette triggered my spidey-sense this weekend.Conservative group warns county to clean up voter rollsThe conservative organization...
View ArticleTo flip...or flop? Democrats brace for North Carolina's high-stakes US Senate...
North Carolina’s junior Republican senator, Thom Tillis (“a man with the backbone of a squid and a zealous supporter of President Definitely No Quid Pro Quo”), has the dubious honor of entering his...
View ArticleNC-Sen Dem candidate "had a hard time" working with ICE against people...
On the heels of the article earlier this week on North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidates J. Calvin Cunningham III and Erica D. Smith, a short video has emerged documenting Cunningham’s 2010...
View ArticleDSCC's anointed NC-Sen primary candidate dodges impeachment question. His...
Doing the apostle Simon Peter three better, last month NC-Sen primary candidate Cal Cunningham dodged the question of whether or not he supports impeachment not once, not three times, but six times in...
View ArticleSanders voters might hold the key to a win for DSCC-snubbed Senate candidate,...
A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina offers few surprises, but a glimpse of a path to victory, for Democratic senate candidate Erica D. Smith, vying to take on Republican Sen. Thom...
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WTF? Report indicts centrist Dem senate candidate, but its headline smears...
Editorial bias against the black female progressive candidate in North Carolina’s Democratic senate primary, State Sen. Erica Smith, is on blatant display this morning in the state’s leading newspaper,...
View ArticleWashed up: How a candidate who swore off corporate PAC money still rakes it in
In 2020, a Democratic primary candidate promising not to accept corporate PAC money is the new normal. Some live up to their word. Others, not so much.North Carolina’s Democratic US Senate primary is...
View ArticleIn North Carolina, the people's candidate wins a game changing endorsement:...
Endorsements are the life blood of political campaigns — particularly in primary elections. For every one voter who invests serious time and effort in carefully studying the opposing candidates’...
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Are Dems about to fumble their single best chance to pick up a Senate seat?
Buying a $4 million ticket to nowhere is a luxury few of us can afford...except, it seems, Cal Cunningham’s backers in the NC-Sen Democratic primary to choose an opponent against Republican Sen. Thom...
View ArticleRed-Boxing: how candidates evade campaign finance law without *quite*...
As lax as America’s campaign finance laws are, there’s at least one bright red line that no political operative can cross without fear of legal consequences: candidates and the PACs that support them...
View ArticleWho's behind the mystery GOP PAC meddling in NC Dems' Senate primary? Better...
The GOP is all about ‘shaping’ Democratic voters’ attitudes to its own liking this year. But recently its skullduggery has taken a mysterious new turn.Trump has, of course, long been toying with Bernie...
View ArticleThe kids are alright: Undergrads seriously rocking the vote in North Carolina
Primary elections are always low-turnout affairs, and North Carolina’s early-voting run-up to Super Tuesday is no exception, with a turnout thus far of just 6.6% statewide.In a biennial orgy of...
View ArticleProgressives urge NC civil rights champion Anita Earls to run for U.S. Senate
In the state once believed to be Democrats’ best hope to win control of the US Senate in 2020, North Carolina Democrats are picking up the pieces after a loss party insiders deemed “surprising” even as...
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