Hot damn!: "Watauga elections board reverses ASU voting decision"

[WorseBeforeBetter]

Submitted by robchristensen on 2013-09-06 09:46

The Watauga County Board of Elections has voted to restore Boone's three voting precincts including on the campus of Appalachian State University.

The Watauga board had drawn national attention last month when it voted to combine the precincts into one off campus location. But the new Republican majority reversed itself Wednesday night at the urging of Kim Strach, executive director of the State Board of Elections.

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The newly formed precinct would have had 9,300 voters in a building with only 35 parking spaces and no sidewalk. Critics said it was a way hold down student voting which tended to go Democratic.

The Democrats pushed for the voting place to be moved back to the student union. But the Republican majority moved it to Legends building, which functions as a nightclub. The GOP majority said it would provide better access to non student voters.

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http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/watauga_elections_board_reverses_asu_voting_decision##storylink=cpy

Plus, Montravius King can run for office.


Montravius King and his attoney Clare Barnett with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice after the NC State Board of Elections hearing ruling in favor of king's right to run for public office in Pasquotank County NC.

So much shitty news from this state... I am absolutely CHEERING this.

[PrestonLocke]

1. NC republicans are so rabid

they don't bother to check if what they're passing is legal, enforceable or even within the scope of their power.

Time well spent!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. Indeed. And they did contribute to the decline of NC's national image.

Well done, NC GOP!

PPP: North Carolina's national image declines
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10693767

[marions ghost]

3. Good news--

but nobody better get too comfortable...State BOE was feeling the heat I imagine.

What next Rethuglicons? How else can you knock back Dem voters?

(Looks like publicity and protesting IS helping...don't stop).

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. Comfortable? God no.

These two decisions are mere blips in the big scheme of (NC GOP) things. But I'll take 'em.

Thanks to Moral Mondays, Rachel, the NYT, social media, etc. -- no stopping, indeed!

[GentryDixon]

4. Good news.

I vote in Utah (another batshit crazy repub state), but I have a part time home in Harnett County.

I have my own fight with my husbands nieces over their "Faux" talking points. One is a Pastors wife. Go figure the vitriol she posted on Facebook about "those liberals" during the last election. After I called her out, she unfriended me.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

6. Ah, yes, Facebook "wars."

Many HS "friends" are total 'baggers. I mostly tune them out, but every now and then I just can't help myself.

[TalkingDog]

7. !!!! YES!

Woot! One for the good guys!

[progressoid]

8. Rachel Maddow covered this a couple days ago too.

Very cool!



http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/52917158#52917158

[WorseBeforeBetter]

12. Ooh, thanks.

Watching now...

[rdharma]

9. Take a very short 'victory break' and then continue fighting!

[struggle4progress]

10. Amazing! It's my understanding the state BoE actually refused to overturn to Watauga county BoE

but merely criticized it:

... State board members .. criticized the Watauga County elections board for .. questionable behavior in a recent .. meeting .. posted on YouTube ... That argument spilled over ... with Kathleen Campbell, the lone Democrat on the Watauga board, telling state board members that the .. Republicans had violated open meetings law ... The county board, with Republicans in control, limited early voting to one site in Boone ... Republicans also .. put forward a plan .. creating the state’s third-largest voting precinct at a site that has only 35 parking spaces to accommodate 9,300 voters ... That plan .. was pulled back by the Watauga board for more consideration ... “You guys have got to start getting along,” Josh Howard .. told the .. county .. board members at Tuesday’s hearing. “Y’all are all in this together, and we don’t want to see you guys on YouTube again” ...
State elections board reverses Pasquotank decision, backs Watauga ruling
By Anne Blythe
Published: September 3, 2013

[WorseBeforeBetter]

11. Yeah, I was disappointed in the state BOE's Watauga decision...

but had to laugh at the YouTube comment. I'm pretty amazed the county reversed its decision about voting on campus. Now, on to the appropriate IDs for these students... and everyone else.