WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[RandySF]

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The NC GOP is trying to rush through a law that would REQUIRE every county elections board in NC to be chaired by a Republican in election years. These guys just can't stop trying to rig elections.
8:25 AM - 4 Dec 2018

[spanone]

1. this is what republicans do time and time again.

[grantcart]

32. So how are they going to get this past Democratic Governor Roy Cooper?

He was AG of 16 years so I think he knows how to stop it (even if it is an actual thing which I doubt).

[brush]

36. Yes. And any court would throw that out. Only the repugs run things in election years...

Ridiculous. The repugs who think that will fly are thinking like childred. That will never happen.

The Democrats should have already had their attorney preparing the suit.

[BigmanPigman]

2. They can only win by cheating.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. That is so fucking blatant! They're not even trying to hide it.

[Golden Raisin]

27. Exactly. Brazen, shameless and out in the open.

And they like to be known as the party of law and order. Goddamn RIGGED law and order always favoring Republicans!

[TwistOneUp]

49. And every time they do, it works in our favor. nt

[pecosbob]

4. Yep

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nc-gop-trying-again-to-cement-control-of-local-elections-boards-during-election-years

Even after a court called such a scheme unconstitutional, the GOP-controlled North Carolina legislature will try again to design county election boards to guarantee that Republicans have the chair in election years.

The new legislation would, in odd-numbered years, make the chair a board member who is from “the political party with the highest number of registered affiliates,” which are the Democrats in North Carolina. In even years, when statewide elections are held, the chair would be a board member who is from “political party with the second highest number of registered affiliates,” i.e. the GOP, under the legislation.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211510887

[muriel_volestrangler]

64. This is the bill - wow, that's some nerve. "We've got the fewer number of registered voters, so ...

... we should be in charge during elections."

[msongs]

5. it says "link to tweet" nt

[Cha]

6. FUCKING NC RETHUGS. May

this Boomerrang them to living Hell.

[Persondem]

7. Well the NC GOP is just trying to reclaim the title of most conniving state party after

MI GOP and WI GOP introduced their own cheating, corrupt, anti-democracy legislation. The current leadership of the NC GOP has a very warm place waiting for them when their days in the sun come to an end.

[pecosbob]

8. They're just getting started in Wisconsin...it's gonna get ugly there.

[underpants]

9. Wow.

Just wow.

[Cha]

10. Where the hell is the national media on this and Wisconsin and Michigan.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

11. No shit.

It is obscene what they're doing.

[Cha]

12. KR!

Thanks

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. bothsides media is busily showing oneside of Bush-41

This is sufficient cover for GOPers.

[Cha]

20. Yeah, The USA is fighting hard

for our Democracy.. and the US m$m is doing their usual dereliction of duty to the point of siding with the traitors.

Anything for a buck.

[LisaM]

58. NPR is covering it.

Problem is, NPR listeners are already probably well aware. It needs to be on CNN, MSNBC, and the regular networks.

[Mars and Minerva]

61. Actually Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers are great outlets...

then the cable news play clips the next morning too.
I often lobby both shows with news ideas. Who knows if it works but it can't hurt.

[colsohlibgal]

13. That Has To Be Stopped

What a blatant desperate attempt to nullify the will of the voters. This should not hold up to a legal challenge.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. Rethugs going full monty on the election fraud... no surprise there!!

[rurallib]

16. Even the Onion or Borowitz couldn't make this up

[W T F]

17. If that's the way they want to play, We'll just get our Dems to register as Republicans😂

[Cha]

22. Interesting

idea There's a gotta be a way around their treachery.

[Honeycombe8]

18. That sounds illegal. Just will cost more money to take it to court. nt

[diva77]

38. Exactly. Trying to drain citizen and Dem coffers. Rethugs don't just steal, they find a way to

twist the knife to unprecedented amounts every time.



K&R for frick'n exposure

[AlexSFCA]

19. GOP supports conservatism first and not democracy first

If they can’t win democratically they will abandon democracy not conservatism.

[The Liberal Lion]

46. The only issue I have with your post

is that these folks who call themselves republicans are NOT conservatives. These are traitors, and even though I don't agree with American conservatism, they are as well traitors to conservatism. No my friend, these are not conservatives, these are Nazis. It's time we come to terms with this and act accordingly.

[pangaia]

21. This is what happens in an 'authoritarian dictatorship..'

It is how the Chinese government works...
North Korea....
Russia....

Their side is the only side...

[bdamomma]

45. sickening

they just will do anything to stay in power. it won't work.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

23. Get over it assholes - you lost.

Deal with it. I remember hearing that after W won, after trmp won. You dems need to get over it - you lost. The difference being that dems accepted that and pressed on, repukes refuse to allow the will of the people to be respected.

[Pepsidog]

24. And when Dems win in 2020 fed funds to NC should be cut as much as possible

[TwistOneUp]

51. Then we sink to their level.

And the NC voters will know we've done that and perceive us as vindictive.

Better to increase fed funds for the "traditionally red" states. Let them see how much better off they'll be being blue.

[ecstatic]

25. This is why securing our elections and protecting voters is the MOST important issue

that the new congress should tackle. I hate that I had to go to the polls wondering if that would be the last semi fair election in the US. We must fix this. Nothing else matters if we don't fix this.

[sellitman]

26. Oh please....

This is The Onion isn't it?

[superpatriotman]

28. A slow-moving coup

By the repukes. Foul, evil little people

[The Liberal Lion]

44. That's the right word for it "coup"

Margaret Atwood already told us what to be ready for.

[workinclasszero]

29. The Republican Party is the biggest threat to democracy

and the rule of law in this country and around the world.

Anti American fascist actions like the defeated GOP are doing in NC, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia prove it!

[StevieM]

30. Seriously? This can't be real.

I can't believe the times that we are living in.

[grantcart]

31. And exactly how will they get this signed by a Democratic Governor?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

33. Perhaps they're planning on overriding his veto.

[workinclasszero]

34. The republican controlled state govt

passes it in a lame duck session and the lame duck governor signs it into law before the democrats take office next year.

[ooky]

35. NC has a Democratic governor. But Republicans still have a supermajority

until the lame duck session is over.

[FuzzyRabbit]

37. I understand that the Republican party will soon be changing its name to

the Ba'ath Party, a much more fitting name.

[Trump Must Go]

39. They have no idea what America is all about

I fear what will happen in 2020 when Trump is defeated

[The Liberal Lion]

42. I think there is no reason to fear

we only need fear the unknown. In this case we know what is coming. This can only end one way. Fear not, just be ready.

[ooky]

52. They obviously wish to change America

Any time you point out to a republican that we are supposed to be a democracy the resounding answer I have always received is that "we are a republic".

Republicans do not want a democracy. They just want authoritarian control of the government, so they can live well themselves and nobody can challenge them, as they loot the rest of us. Their policies make that perfectly clear. Actions such as this one by the NC republicans, make that perfectly clear. What could be less democratic than this bill?

That is what we are fighting against, to preserve our democracy, and to restore it, where it has been weakened by Republicans.

[Trump Must Go]

63. Yes we are a republic. a democratic republic

They are not exclusive terms. We have people who represent us when they pass laws. (That makes us a republic.) They do it in our name. But we authorize them to act in our name ONLY BECAUSE WE SELECT THEM DEMOCRATICALLY. (That makes us a democracy.) Any action that interferes with our ability to select them in a democratic way makes them illegitimate. That action just shows them to be the bastards that they are.

[lpbk2713]

40. This sounds like something out of 1930's Germany.

And it's scary as hell. And I don't even live in NC.

[The Liberal Lion]

41. They do it right in front of us

The question becomes: when will we say "enough"?

[bdamomma]

43. crap

this goes beyond the pale, they are totally unglued. They should be arrested.

[malthaussen]

47. Dunno why they don't just discontinue elections altogether...

... Legislators for Life, why not?

-- Mal

[whathehell]

48. This can't be legal!

[Nitram]

50. I can't believe they'd have the nerve to try that. Obviously unconstitutional.

Or is this a piece in the Onion?

[Eliot Rosewater]

53. And now the courts are filled with traitorous rightwing sycophants, all of this will now happen

and democracy is gone, for at least 30 years or forever.

For real.

Rump or no rump.



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But her emails! And she had a SERVER oh GAWD!

[Beartracks]

54. The GOP would love them some one-party rule. Like the Soviets. Or Nazis. n/t

[SleeplessinSoCal]

56. Meanwhile on Long Island...

Two Suffolk County election workers and local Independence and Republican party leaders were charged with forging signatures on nominating petitions in an attempt to boost the chances of GOP candidates, according to a Wednesday Newsday report.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/long-island-election-workers-party-leaders-charged-with-forging-signatures

[ancianita]

57. It's the Big Koch Block across WI, MI, GA, NC, and probably other states.

Those guys spend as much in loss as they do in wins to structurally lock in power by any means necessary.

[Blue_Tires]

59. It's democracy coming apart at the seams...

Seriously, wars have started over less shady shit than what's happening in NC and WI...

[G_j]

60. never ends

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211513235

[WheelWalker]

62. Desperate Deadenders.