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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 12:41 PM
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LOD: The Up-Chuck Bill (Democracy NC | Tuesday, June 14th, 2011)
A hodgepodge of anti-voter bills resurfaced .. in the House Committee on Elections as a .. 44-page proposal ... Among other things, the up-chuck bill would slice a week off Early Voting, ban Sunday voting, cap individual donations to political parties at $250,000 but allow unlimited corporate money to finance party operations, end the requirement for county boards of election to conduct annual voter awareness and registration campaigns, eliminate straight-ticket voting, kill the Council of State public financing program, make all judicial races partisan, enact a weak pay-to-play prohibition affecting state vendors, kick out the current chair of the State Board of Elections this September ...
http://www.democracy-nc.org/news/blog/category/link-of-the-day/
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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 09:52 PM
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1. They really don't want many people to vote do they?
Edited on Wed Jun-15-11 09:53 PM by ProfessionalLeftist
Unfortunately this is the name of the name in many states - along with defunding PP and decimating unions/collective bargaining rights and making abortion illegal - in ALL cases.

NC had to be STUPID and vote in a Republican legislature. . . so there goes NC.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:22 AM
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2. NC may still be competitive in 2012: that's why the Rs are doing this
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wildeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-11 09:22 PM
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3. Glad this mess didn't make it through.
Photo ID was vetoed too. Now I'm gonna make it my job to get rid of these clowns next time around.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 02:53 PM
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4. It passed one chamber before the cross-over date, so it's still alive
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