Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina

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Source: Reuters


Thu Nov 3, 2016 | 9:38am EDT
Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina
North Carolina campaign buttons sit on a table before the start of a rally with Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump in Fletcher, North Carolina, U.S. October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX2PW7X

By Julia Harte | ASHEBORO, N.C.

When Bill McAnulty, an elections board chairman in a mostly white North Carolina county, agreed in July to open a Sunday voting site where black church members could cast ballots after services, the reaction was swift: he was labeled a traitor by his fellow Republicans.

"I became a villain, quite frankly," recalled McAnulty at a state board of elections meeting in September that had been called to resolve disputes over early voting plans. "I got accused of being a traitor and everything else by the Republican Party," McAnulty said.

Following the blowback from Republicans, McAnulty later withdrew his support for the Sunday ............................


................ In emails, state and county Republican officials lobbied members of at least 17 county election boards to keep early-voting sites open for shorter hours on weekends and in evenings – times that usually see disproportionately high turnout by Democratic voters. Reuters obtained the emails through a public records request.................................



Thu Nov 3, 2016 | 9:38am EDT


Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina





North Carolina campaign buttons sit on a table before the start of a rally with Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump in Fletcher, North Carolina, U.S. October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX2PW7X

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-northcarolina-insight-idUSKBN12Y0ZY

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North Carolina campaign buttons sit on a table before the start of a rally with Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump in Fletcher, North Carolina, U.S. October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX2PW7X

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Republicans: The Synonym for Fuckers

[RedCloud]

2. How soon will MSM blow the lid off this one?

I am guessing in an alternate universe where good triumphs.

[Cosmocat]

8. Oh, they are blowing the lid off of it

Breathlessly reporting how the black vote is down for Hillary vs BHO in 2012.

They know why, but that would not be bad news for dems.

[lark]

3. Repugs know that most people aren't with them,

so they do everything humanly possible to keep people other than old white folks from voting. They have never had any issues with voter repression, as long as it was Democrats that weren't having their votes counted. They are the true vote riggers.

[True_Blue]

5. True

Dems always do better when there's a high voter turnout.

[Skittles]

6. easier than trying to get people to vote for their shitty ideas