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No one is trying to keep anyone from voting. We'd just like folks to vote only once.
Really? Is there any evidence that anyone is voting more than once? I frequently work at the polls and believe me I see no evidence to back up this statement.
There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud problems in NC. Even if there were evidence of voter fraud (which there is not — we're fixing something that is not broke, here) the proposals by the Republican led legislature leave gaping holes and the potential for much fraud with absentee ballots, which it could be a much worse problem. In-person voting, be it early voting, or on the day of the election, is not associated with many problems in NC, but we do have an unfortunate history of voter suppression. The struggle for voting rights - North Carolina Digital History .
This might be too subtle but Jennifer Roberts the former Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners chairman is out today in the crowds and snapping pictures. Here's a tweet:
"Here is for the ability of all individuals to speak for their concerns, who arent paid lobbyists, who are concerned parents"
Thing is, to speak in front of her at a board meeting you only got 3 minutes. If you were a group you only got 10 minutes total. Go over that 3 minutes and you'll be cut off. Refuse to leave the podium you'd be dragged out by cops.
The Observer says "detained". Only the lawyer at the end says "arrested". That's pretty funny since 1 minute before I posted an issue with those words in the Charlotte forum.
The Winston-Salem Journal uses both "arrested" in the headline and story and also "detained" in the story. They quote the police chief as saying the reporter, "faces charges of trespassing, failure to disperse and breaking building rules."
ETA: This is an AP story, also carried in the Fayetteville Observer, and other outlets, under the same headline.
In all, 84 people were arrested including Charlotte Observer reporter Tim Funk. Despite press identification around his neck, Funk was one of many taken away in zip ties, and hauled off to jail.
Funk, who was wearing Charlotte Observer identification, was handcuffed and taken along with the arrested protesters to the Wake County magistrate’s office to be arraigned on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and failure to disperse. Jeff Weaver, police chief for the General Assembly Police in Raleigh who oversaw the arrests, told The Associated Press
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Pick 4.
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