Save early voting rally in Asheville

[octoberlib]

BUNCOMBE COUNTY RESIDENTS: Please join us at a Save Early Voting Rally in Asheville on Friday, April 5th at 12:30 PM at the North Asheville Library Community Room. Details and RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/events/329460720510626/

Tell McCrory to Save Early Voting here:
http://bit.ly/10wjWaI

Sign the petition to preserve student voting rights here: http://bit.ly/XdYLgb

https://www.facebook.com/ProgressNorthCarolinaAction

[WorseBeforeBetter]

1. "People to match our mountains"?

That's pretty awesome. Voter suppression, not so much.

[octoberlib]

2. I live in Charlotte and I'm just wondering how many early voting sites they'll let us have here.

Since Charlotte's blue it wouldn't surprise me at all if they cut it down to 2 or 3.

[octoberlib]

3. Ok. Only one early voting site would be open in each city. ONE. At the County Board of Elections.

Good grief , we had long lines in November at the 22 sites we had open then.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Jaysuz. Where did you find that info?

I'm Googling but keep getting distracted -- still trying to "process" today's senate bill about restarting executions. What's the deal for early voting in Wake County? I imagine the same.

[octoberlib]

5. Here's the section from the bill

PART II. EARLY VOTING PERIOD
16 SECTION 2.1. G.S. 163-227.2(b) reads as rewritten:
17 &quot b) Not earlier than the third second Thursday before an election, in which absentee
18 ballots are authorized, in which a voter seeks to vote and not later than 1:00 P.M. on the last
19 Saturday before that election, the voter shall appear in person only at the office of the county
20 board of elections, except as provided in subsection (g) of this section. A county board of
21 elections shall conduct one-stop voting on the last Saturday before the election until 1:00 P.M.
22 and may conduct it until 5:00 P.M. on that Saturday. A board of elections may not conduct
23 one-stop voting on Sunday. That voter shall enter the voting enclosure at the board office
24 through the appropriate entrance and shall at once state his or her name and place of residence
25 to an authorized member or employee of the board. In a primary election, the voter shall also
26 state the political party with which the voter affiliates and in whose primary the voter desires to
27 vote, or if the voter is an unaffiliated voter permitted to vote in the primary of a particular party
28 under G.S. 163-119, the voter shall state the name of the authorizing political party in whose
29 primary he wishes to vote. The board member or employee to whom the voter gives this
30 information shall announce the name and residence of the voter in a distinct tone of voice.
31 After examining the registration records, an employee of the board shall state whether the
32 person seeking to vote is duly registered. If the voter is found to be registered that voter may
33 request that the authorized member or employee of the board furnish the voter with an
34 application form as specified in G.S. 163-227. The voter shall complete the application in the
35 presence of the authorized member or employee of the board, and shall deliver the application
36 to that person."


This is fucking crazy! They want you to announce whether you're a Republican or Democrat to a State Board of Elections employee before you can vote. http://www.ncleg.net/Applications/BillLookUp/LoadBillDocument.aspx?SessionCode=2013&DocNum=2189&SeqNum=0

[octoberlib]

6. Restarting executions makes me sick. nt

[mwooldri]

7. "The" office of the board off elections?

What is to stop counties from establishing satellite offices that are mothballed until voting time? Is there anything about virtual voting ? It is not right but there has got to be workarounds?

[octoberlib]

8. I don't know about virtual voting but I doubt it.

Satellite offices are an excellent idea!