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kpete

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Wed Aug 17, 2016, 08:57 PM Aug 2016

Smoking Gun Memo Reveals GOP Voter Fraud Bamboozlement In North Carolina

The memo, sent by NCGOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse on Sunday, said that Republican board members "should fight with all they have to promote safe and secure voting and for rules that are fair to our side."

“Our Republican Board members should feel empowered to make legal changes to early voting plans, that are supported by Republicans,” Woodhouse wrote. “Republicans can and should make party line changes to early voting.”

“Our Republican Board members should feel empowered to make legal changes to early voting plans, that are supported by Republicans,” Woodhouse wrote in his email to board members. “Republicans can and should make party line changes to early voting.”

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article96179857.html#storylink=cpy





Last month, a panel of judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 2013 law passed by the state's Republican legislature that cut back early voting in the state from 17 days to 10 days, ruling that it intended to discriminate against African Americans. Other voting restrictions in the law were struck down as well. The state has asked the Supreme Court to halt parts of the ruling and allow North Carolina to keep its cutbacks to early voting, among other provisions.

The memo came as local election boards are working on schedules for early voting that take into account the appeals court decision. Per the News and Observer:




http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/north-carolina-early-voting-memo
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article96179857.html
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Smoking Gun Memo Reveals GOP Voter Fraud Bamboozlement In North Carolina (Original Post) kpete Aug 2016 OP
There is no such thing as rigged elections. We been chastised on this. CentralMass Aug 2016 #1
Yes the North Carolina GOP is engaging in intentional discrimination Gothmog Aug 2016 #2
Funny how the GOP cries wolf on voter fraud when they're more likely to commit it. Initech Aug 2016 #3
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