{"id":23972,"date":"2014-10-02T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23972"},"modified":"2014-10-02T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:46:07","slug":"the-legislature-got-it-right-the-court-got-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23972","title":{"rendered":"The Legislature Got It Right–The Court Got It Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of the key provisions in North Carolina’s<\/a> new voting<\/a> law<\/a> have been overturned by a a 2-1 ruling of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a>. Yahoo News<\/a> posted an article yesterday explaining the details.<\/p>\n

The two parts of the law that were overturned were same-day registration<\/a> and out-of-precinct<\/a> voting. The court claimed that to end these practices would\u00a0disenfranchise<\/a> some voters. I beg to differ. The reason the legislature ended same-day registration was that it did not provide ample time to check the address information given by the voter. A friend of mine, a North Carolina resident, checked the voter registration in her town and found that there were five people registered at her address that did not live there. I don’t know whether those five people had voted in recent elections or not, but if they did, they cancelled the vote of legal voters–disenfranchising legal voters. Stopping out-of-precinct voting is a good idea because ballots are different in different precincts–precinct elections include local candidates that vary by precinct. If a person votes in the wrong precinct, he may not get to vote for the officials in his precinct–thus he is disenfranchising himself!<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

State House Speaker Thom Tillis<\/a>, the Republican challenging incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan<\/a>, said he and state Senate leader Phil Berger<\/a>, also a Republican, would appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at Yahoo attempts to portray the passage of this law as a political issue related to the Republicans wanting to take the Senate. The question we need to ask is, “Why does ensuring the integrity of our elections give a political advantage to Republicans?”<\/p>\n

The new North Carolina voting law is a step toward more honest elections. Why are there politicians who are fighting this?<\/p>\n

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