More “Coming soon to an election near you”
Think you’ve seen everything? N.C. Republicans propose that future voter registration drives be conducted with sample forms — facsimiles, not official forms. The sample forms shall be “for informational purposes only and shall not provide spaces for an individual to fill in the individual’s personal information.” So, Republicans would like to see voter registration drives that don’t actually register voters, just provide information on how someone might register on their own.
Anyone who uses a genuine form in their voter registration drive shall be a Class 2 misdemeanor under proposed House Bill 127.
Of course, there is a lot of heat coming down over N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin’s Trumpish attempt to steal a state Supreme Court seat. (Did I mention that Griffin’s accomplices in this election-stealing are Troy Shelton, Craig Schauer & Mike Dowling of the Dowling Firm, and Phil Thomas of Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman?) So maybe Republicans in the legislature simply drafted HB 127 as an outrage-generating distraction.
Nah.
David Pepper calls states like North Carolina “Laboratories of Autocracy.” But I might argue that the Tar Heel State is not just “First in Flight” but “First in Autocracy.” It’s said that much of U.S. social and technological innovation starts in California and works its way east. Not when it comes to election fuckery.
Did I mention that Cleta Mitchell lives in North Carolina?