Just hours after Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed a broad bill to massively restrict voting rights in North Carolina, localities moved to make it harder for students to vote.The moves come on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 June rulinggutting the Voting Rights Act and destroying the provisions that had long required North Carolina and other states with a history of voter suppression to seek pre-clearance before making major changes to election laws.After the Republican legislature and Republican governor passed the nation’sworst voter suppression bill, making it more difficult for traditionally-Democratic groups like racial minorities and young people to vote, local governments wasted no time in targeting one very large constituency of young people: students.
first they want to charge them so much for education they spend the first 20 years post grad paying it off, now they want to disenfranchise them and suppress their votes talk about overreaching their arms have to be hyperextended.
By a two-to-one vote, the Republican majority in the Watauga County Board of Elections voted Monday to get rid of the early voting site and election-day polling place at Appalachian State University, The State reported Wednesday. With more than 17,000 students, the university is one of the largest in the state.By combining three local precincts into one, the board will force about 9,300 residents to vote in a county building with just 35 parking spots. Republican Mitt Romney narrowly carried the competitive county in 2012 with 50.1 percent of the vote; President Barack Obama had narrowly won it in 2008. State Sen. John Stein, a Democrat, noted that the board was “making it harder for students to vote” purely for partisan advantage.
sound familiar that's because it's not new it's the same thing you saw last year lines around the corner, voting days cancelled this is deja vu all over again and another reuse of old tactics they didn't even bother to dust it off, that's right wasn't out of circulation long enough to accumulate any dust, and the base of complicit cheaters that vote for them some of their votes will be collateral damage, but as long as it's one more then theirs is ok they're republicans.
