North Carolina Is Engaging in “Insane” Jim Crow–Style Voter Suppression, Says Federal Judge

[G_j]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/03/federal_judge_slams_north_carolina_voter_purge.html

U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs slammed an ongoing North Carolinian voter purge during a dramatic Wednesday hearing, telling county attorneys that she was “horrified” by the “insane” process by which voters could be removed from the rolls without their knowledge. “It almost looks like a cattle call, the way people are being purged,” Biggs said. “This sounds like something that was put together in 1901,” when the state used Jim Crow laws to prevent black citizens from casting a ballot.

Biggs called a hearing after the NAACP sued several North Carolina counties for purging nearly 6,700 voters—most of them black Democrats—from the rolls. These purges were legal under a state law that permits any person to revoke any other person’s voting rights. The process is simple: An individual gathers mail that was returned as undeliverable, then challenges the voter registration of residents at those addresses. If those voters do not appear at a county board of elections or return a notarized form, their voting rights are nullified.

In several North Carolina counties, Republican activists have used this process to revoke thousands of people’s voting rights at once, a majority of them minorities. But as the Justice Department noted in supporting the NAACP’s lawsuit, this process is illegal under federal law, which trumps state law when the two clash. Biggs indicated that she would halt the purges and restore purged voters’ rights under federal law but did not issue a ruling from the bench. Her decision is likely to come within the next few days.

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[world wide wally]

1. Has Trump ever been asked "which side is rigging the election"?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Exactly what I want to know

If HRC loses NC, it sounds like SHE should contest the results.

[ColemanMaskell]

4. Projection. He accuses the other side of things he does himself -- loads and loads of things.

Mexican rapists ring a bell? He does this all the time. Any accusation he comes out with, it's a good bet that he's talking about something he did himself. Traditionally expressed in vernacular as "whoever smelt it dealt it".

[ColemanMaskell]

2. Encouraging that the judge is planning to restore the purged voters. Hope she does it quickly.

Thank you for posting that.

[Coyotl]

5. JAIL: " this process is illegal under federal law, which trumps state law when the two clash."