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"Seventeen North Carolina counties reduced the number of early voting locations from 2012. Of those, fifteen saw lower in-person turnout in the first two days of early voting in the state, Thursday and Friday, according to an analysis by Michael McDonald, a University of Florida political science professor and a leading authority on voting rates.
Several of those counties, including Mecklenburg County, the state's largest, saw only modest drop-offs. But in at least six, the in-person voting rate declined by around 50 percent, McDonald found. And Guilford County, home to the predominantly African-American city of Greensboro, cut early voting locations from 16 to just one. It saw in-person voting decline from 21,560 votes in the first two days of the 2012 voting period."
I've seen at least 3 sources that state Greensboro and Guilford are predominantly white. I wonder why they think it is predominantly black? Are they trying to say the State is trying to silence minorities?
Except those were shown to be fake, you know by real journalists. Good try though.
Why did he quit the DNC over a fake video? Also, which journalists claim it is fake? I'd like to know the truth about these videos. One side says they are fake and O'Keefe is not a real journalist, the other says its real. What ever the truth may be, it is strange that people are fired and are resigning over these videos.
Why did he quit the DNC over a fake video? Also, which journalists claim it is fake? I'd like to know the truth about these videos. One side says they are fake and O'Keefe is not a real journalist, the other says its real. What ever the truth may be, it is strange that people are fired and are resigning over these videos.
He wasn't part of the DNC. He worked with Breitbart and O'Keefe, it is the same guy that wore the robot suit to a debate Rubio was in.
I've seen at least 3 sources that state Greensboro and Guilford are predominantly white. I wonder why they think it is predominantly black? Are they trying to say the State is trying to silence minorities?
Greensboro also slightly more White than non-white.
And while I do think there was definitely deliberate suppression by cutting to one site for the first week, starting tomorrow, 24 more sites open up in Guilford. I do expect Guilford to catch up to the rate of other counties once this happens.
This still doesn't mean that the sites chosen can't be favoring one race or another, if let's say 20 out of 25 of them were all in "White" areas (I am not saying they are, just that a raw number won't tell you whether suppression is taking place). They also could achieve it by having more actual voting machines in certain sites and maybe only 1 or 2 in others. This country has a lonnnnnnng history of voter suppression of the "wrong" people (I still remember 1990, when Jesse Helms was running and made the famous "white hands" ad [look itup]--this was when we still used the old fashioned leveled voting machines, and gosh, "mysteriously", many of the ones in Durham county ("coincidentally" the #1 most Democratic-voting county in the state) broke down, and people were standing in line until after 11 PM.
I remember the white hands ad as well. Absolutely disgusted by this state when he got reelected after that.
Guilford county also has a large college-educated white population. It's the 3rd largest county in the state, and a major democratic stronghold. It's obvious what the motivations are for having only one early voting center there. It probably won't affect the governor's race or presidential race... those look like they might be a done deal. They're just trying to hang on to Burr and Edmunds, and it may work.
Thankfully the rest of the sites in Guilford opened Thursday. I hope to see huge numbers in them. But there are still lots of less reported counties that have strategically limited early voting to a small number of sites and/or not on weekends. Our housekeeper lives in Granville county and said they aren't having any early voting on weekends at all and was worried about when she would be able to vote, so we helped her print an absentee ballot application right then and there and send it in.
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