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Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumCross post from gdp about last night
I rarely post there, but last night I wanted this out there. Since a lot of you dont follow gdp, here ya go:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511502170
About NC. Here's something relevant to, but even more important than, the primary election
Students Are Being Rejected From The Polls Because Of North Carolinas Voter ID Law
KIRA LERNER MAR 15, 2016
(Think Progress) North Carolinas controversial voter identification law is being used for the first time in Tuesdays primary, and registered voters are experiencing the consequences of the voter suppression measure.
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Early voting offered a glimpse of the problems that will arise on Tuesday during the past ten days of early voting, many college students were blocked from the polls. North Carolinas WRAL reported that 864 people across the state had cast provisional early ballots because they did not have acceptable forms of ID, and four of the five counties with the highest concentrations of provisional ballots from voters without ID were in places with college campuses.
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We had 100 years of pushing away people from the polls, Hall said about North Carolina. It was really only in the early 21st century, after 2000, that our participation started to come up, and now were going right back to this message of elections are not for you.
Like in South Carolina, voters without ID can cast a provisional ballot if they have a reasonable impediment to getting photo ID, including lack of proper documents, work schedule, or family obligations. But unlike South Carolina, the impediments voters can list are limited and will not cover any voter without ID. Early voting data has shown that while black voters make up 22 percent of the states voting population, they account for 26 percent of those who said they had a reasonable impediment for not having an acceptable ID.
Like in South Carolina, voters without ID can cast a provisional ballot if they have a reasonable impediment to getting photo ID, including lack of proper documents, work schedule, or family obligations. But unlike South Carolina, the impediments voters can list are limited and will not cover any voter without ID. Early voting data has shown that while black voters make up 22 percent of the states voting population, they account for 26 percent of those who said they had a reasonable impediment for not having an acceptable ID.
There's more, lots more.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/15/3760266/north-carolina-voter-id/
There's something to be said here, that this tactic quite possibly helping a democratic nominee is only slightly ironic. Impediments to true democracy are everywhere, if you don't see them, you aren't paying attention.
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Cross post from gdp about last night (Original Post)
Rebkeh
Mar 2016
OP
Jenny_92808
(1,342 posts)1. A part of our fight is to
fight to overcome the cheating. We are going to get to the tipping point and we will eventually win. The evils-that-be just want to postpone it as long as possible.
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)4. Good cheaters are considered good politicians
But we don't need more politicians, we need more leaders. Saying you are a leader does not make you one, but people go along because it's all so chaotic.
Someday though, you're right about that, the status quo is unsustainable.
eridani
(51,907 posts)2. Wondering why the Clinton people don't see this as a threat to their candidate
Very shortsighted of them.
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)3. I know, right?
Or a threat to democracy itself.