Winston-Salem St. polling place next on GOP hit list
Chairman Ken Raymond said he will move Tuesday to shut down the voting site at the historically black campus after hearing talk that a professor had offered students extra credit for going to the polls, which he said was a violation of the law. He offered no proof.
Last week, the Watauga Board of Elections voted to close the voting site on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone.
Republicans on the Pasquotank County Board of Elections also voted last week to deny an Elizabeth City State University senior from running for city council, ruling that his on-campus address couldn't be used to establish residency. The county chairman said he planned to challenge the voter residency of other students at the historically black school.
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--a good segment on NC. Covered the sleezy re-writing of the official minutes of the Wautauga Elections Board meeting in Boone to delete comments from a Republican elections official indicating that the election precinct changes do not save money and have no purpose except to make it harder for Democrats to vote.
Rachel then went on to talk about how the Winston-Salem newspaper did some sleuthing on the Wautauga meeting or otherwise nobody would know about this.
She also talked about the State Board of Elections meeting in Cary--this is the gist of that (from Charlotte Observer):
Josh Howard addressed nearly 500 local elections board members, directors and staff at a statewide training seminar, the first since all 100 county boards came under GOP control this year after 20 years in Democratic hands. Republicans now hold 2-1 majorities in counties because Gov. Pat McCrory was elected.
But the division has gotten more attention in the past week as Democrats and civil rights groups are fuming over actions by Republican elections board members in Pasquotank and Watauga counties that could make it harder for college students to vote.
Video footage of part of the tension-filled Watauga County board meeting last week has received more than 28,000 views on the Internet. Howard, a former federal prosecutor, urged the new board members to respect each other and the citizens who come before them.
"The real theme of the conference needs to be 'let's not have any more of our meetings show up on YouTube,'" Howard told the crowd.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/21/4252573/nc-state-elections-chairman-preaches.html#storylink=cpy
Kay Hagan calling for DOJ intervention.