Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina

[meegs73]

When Bill McAnulty, an elections board chairman in a mostly white North Carolina county, agreed in July to open a Sunday voting site where black church members could cast ballots after services, the reaction was swift: he was labeled a traitor by his fellow Republicans

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[eveofrevolution]

[meegs73]

My bad, done :)

[eveofrevolution]

[simply_blah]

Bill McAnulty, fucking coward.

[moonshaz]

Why, why, WHY does this country allow individual states to control things like voting hours, number of polling places, number of days available for early voting, requirements for voting, etc. We've created a system where the people of this country do not all have the same voting rights, and it's just SO WRONG.

We need another voting rights act, one that will standardize this shit and guarantee ALL citizens in ALL states the same access to voting.

[meegs73]

I would love that, especially considering that SCOTUS gutted the existing VRA.

[lightframes]

Do they realize how they sound? Letting more people vote is not "wasteful".

[dull_and_wicked]

who wrote this article...UNC Chapel Hill is in Chapel Hill....