Jim Crow Steals N Carolina 9th CD

[diva77]

Jim Crow Steals N Carolina 9th CD
https://www.gregpalast.com/jim-crow-steals-n-carolina-9th-cd/
September 12, 2019
Greg Palast for Flashpoints

Stolen again. Democrat Dan McCready supposedly lost the special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District to Republican Dan Bishop by less than 4,000 votes. However, racially biased vote suppression schemes easily account for the supposed GOP victory margin.

Under the violently partisan Elections Board chief Kim Strach (pronounced “Strake”) — her husband was the attorney for the state’s Republican Party — North Carolina targeted half a million voters (561,693) based on the measurably racist and absurdly wrong Crosscheck list created by the discredited Kris Kobach of Kansas. The vote scam, which I exposed for Rolling Stone and Al Jazeera, showed that well over 100,000 voters were wrongly purged for supposedly being registered or voting in two states.
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I met one of those dastardly double voters, Kevin Antonio Hayes in Durham, North Carolina. Kevin Antonio was supposedly the same voter as Kevin Thomas Hayes of Virginia. Mr. Hayes is, like most on the Crosscheck list, a voter of color.

Here is a detail from the Crosscheck list for North Carolina voters also supposedly registered or voting in Virginia. Note that almost none of the middle names match.

In 2014, I watched Strach give blatantly false testimony to the North Carolina legislature to get approval for the Crosscheck mass purge. The chart below presented by Strach claims that 155,692 voters in Carolina voted in a second state in the same election, a felony a crime. Yet, after a year of investigation, they could not find one such double voter. Nevertheless, tens of thousands of voters lost their right to vote for a crime for which none were found guilty let alone charged.
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[diva77]

1. please visit link in OP for better context with visual media plus the rest of the article

[Celerity]

2. kick

our voting system is FUCKED UP by the RW

[former9thward]

3. One problem with the theory.

NC has same day registration. So you could register at the polls even if you had been unfairly taken off the lists.

[diva77]

6. NC has same-day reg. during the EARLY voting period - NOT on election day

from same article as OP:

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This week, the media said there was a drop in the number of African Americans who turned out to vote. The truth is that Black folk turned out to vote but were turned away, having been purged. But the US media, unlike my colleagues in other nations, never reports the total of people ejected nor provisional ballots rejected.

Unfortunately, Crosscheck is not the only vote suppression trick in North Carolina’s Jim Crow handbook. Lawsuits by Common Cause, the League of Women Voters and the Rev. William Barber have challenged GOP trickery through such laws and rules as prohibiting same-day voter registration (which could cure illegal purging), shortening the early voting period (70% of African Americans vote early), and even such petty but very partisan rules as ending the pre-registration of the state’s high school graduates.

Unfortunately, the list goes on, and so does Jim Crow, the real winner of the 9th Congressional race.

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[RandiFan1290]

11. You're wrong again

[cwydro]

12. Only during early voting.

Not on actual Election Day.

[former9thward]

14. If this was a problem why didn't we hear about it?

Why didn't we hear stories of thousands of people being turned away from the polls because they were not registered?

[cwydro]

15. I didn't hear about that.

Do you have a link?

I really have no problem with people who can’t be bothered to register not being allowed to vote. I mean, come on.

[Takket]

4. how many of those people were turned away at the polls and denied a vote?

[diva77]

7. along with purges, more than the margin by which McCready "lost"

I wish our Dems would stop conceding.

[FBaggins]

16. There's no evidence at all for that

We're supposed to believe that there are 4,000+ people who were purged back in 2014... haven't tried to vote in the last five years (or else they would have re-registered), yet showed up for a special election with dramatically lower turnout than last year's mid-term election?

And none of them said anything to the press about not being about to vote?

This is a pipe dream beyond even Palast's normal imagination.

[Volaris]

9. I'd bet more than 4000.

[cwydro]

13. I live in a very red county.

I didn’t want to go to my usual polling place out in the county because I recently moved into the city.

On Election Day, they let me walk in and register in the city. I was clearly a McCready voter, but even though I went to the wrong polling place first, everyone bent over backward to help me get to the right place.

Granted, I was already on the rolls, but they didn’t have to do that. Didn’t even ask for proof of residence.

Unbelievably friendly poll workers, including the Bureau of Elections woman, who laid out my options to begin with. Black and white poll workers at each polling place I visited.

Can’t speak for every county in the district, but what I saw was really encouraging. Anson County is majority AA, but it’s generally what some here might call a “redneck county” because it’s very rural. Anson went for McCready.

NC just voted for the wrong effing guy,

[2naSalit]

5. K&R

McCready was ahead until about the last hour.

[Volaris]

8. This is bullshit. Do we really need a Constitutional Amendment to solve this problem at this point?

As far as I'm concerned, you should be able to show up on election day with a SocSec card and a current piece of mail and that's the end of it; 'thank you, heres your ballot, and push the button that tells the statewide database that you voted already and where'.

Easy and done and the gop can go fuck themselves.

[BSdetect]

10. These corrupt policies should be challenged - another stolen election.