"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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