North Carolina Republicans try some voter suppression on college Kids

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North Carolina Fights To Take Voting Site Away From Pesky College Kids


The state elections board appointed by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has been working to move early voting sites off college campuses. | Jeff Siner/Charlotte Observer/MCT via Getty Image

Dana Liebelson

Early voting starts Thursday in North Carolina, even as the state has pushed to move early voting sites farther away from college campuses.

The Republican-dominated North Carolina State Board of Elections, among other efforts, has sought to remove an early voting location from the campus of Appalachian State University, which has about 18,000 students, many of whom lean Democratic. Last week, the board filed a petition asking the state Supreme Court to stay a judge's ruling in favor of the site. On Wednesday afternoon, not having heard from the high court and with the start of early voting looming, the elections board hastily voted to keep the site on campus. Soon after, the state Supreme Court announced that it was staying the judge's ruling and sending the case back to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

With just hours until voting began, an elections board spokesman told the Associated Press late Wednesday that the on-campus voting site would stand. But the battle over early voting in the state continues.

County election officials had already eliminated North Carolina State University’s early voting site this year. In August, the state elections board, whose membership was replaced by Gov. Pat McCrory (R) last year, voted to remove Appalachian State’s early voting site. But college students there fought back.

Ian O’Keefe, an Appalachian State senior active in the local College Democrats chapter, said, “Our election board should be making voting easier, not more difficult.” O'Keefe is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed against the election board.

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“This is a way the Republican Party is attempting to win elections instead of convincing voters to vote for them, and that's just wrong,” O’Keefe said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/north-carolina-early-voting-college_n_6031670.html

[sakabatou]

1. If they can't win, they cheat.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Everybody knows it. Too bad the DEMS can't (or won't) do anything to counter any of it.

[bigdarryl]

3. I don't think it's working look at these pics in NC

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/23/1338631/-Victory-photos-Students-lined-up-and-voting-in-the-now-famous-Plemmons-Student-Union

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Oh man I love this sign!

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