BREAKING: NC Court just ordered LARGEST expansion of voting rights in NC since VRA of 1965.

[demmiblue]

BREAKING: NC Court just ordered LARGEST expansion of voting rights in NC since VRA of 1965. Starting now, ANY person on community supervision can register & vote—incl: felony probation, parole, & post-release. Congratulations to #NC2ndChanceAlliance @ncnaacp @Forward_Justice

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BREAKING: NC judges have restored voting rights to 55,000 people on parole or probation for a felony conviction. We're proud to have fought alongside @arnoldporter, @protctdemocracy, @ncnaacp, The NC Second Chance Alliance, and others to Unlock the Votes of our community members.

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[NJCher]

1. a bit of good news in the face of

republican attempts to suppress the vote!

[onetexan]

14. +1 -K&R

Bravo NC Dems!!

[Lovie777]

2. K & R . . .

Some good news.

[FBaggins]

3. Somewhat premature

A victory to be sure... but a Wake County Superior Court panel is unlikely to have the final say.

[Hortensis]

4. Good point. "NC Court" doesn't make this clear. But great so far.

[FBaggins]

5. The state supreme court is 4-3 blue

However - constitutional issues are handled by a 3-judge panel that is selected by the chief justice, which went red (very) narrowly in the last election.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. Oh well there goes that then....nt

[Traildogbob]

6. Thank you

Roy Cooper, NC Dems and courts. This is a good way to end Cawthorn, because of his not give a shit concern about flood victims will mean little to his cult. States rights!!!!! Clean house here, make NC great. Take this show nation wide were you can Dems. Georgia has the highest voter registration ever, that you Stacy. State by state, eliminate stupid and corrupt. Our taxes need to be paying for people working for us. If not get out, and, no pension when you are proven corrupt. Trump should not receive a penny, nor his skank.

[MiHale]

7. KnR

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. I'm gob-smacked!

If this can happen in DEEP Red State NC, it can happen anywhere. Onward!!!!

[moose65]

12. NC is not deep red

We are pretty much evenly divided, as evidenced by the last elections for Governor (won by a Dem) and Senator (won by the odious Tillis).

Trump won NC 49.9% to 48.6%. That's not "Deep Red" by any means. Save the "Deep Red" label for Alabama.

[Jspur]

15. As a fellow North Carolinian

I agree with you. Even though Trump won our state twice most people don't know that he only won based off of plurality twice and not the majority of votes. Our state is literally in the middle politically. It's almost 50-50 dem-republican composition.

[Warpy]

10. NC was once the most liberal state in the south

back in the good old days before the Klanners under Bobby Jones rose up and Jesse Helms started spewing his poison over the airwaves. The pols weren't horrible and the preachers minded their own business.

Maybe this fascination with pushing the state back to 1920 will end.

[Jspur]

16. After Virginia I would say NC is the most

progressive state in the South. You go beyond NC and the South becomes super red. I have a good friend of mine who lives in Dallas,Texas and says Texas makes NC feel like the Garden of Eden.

[Warpy]

17. Well, parts of it, anyway

All those little towns in the Tidewater area feel just like Alabama.

[ananda]

11. I hope this bodes well for the senate seat in 2022.

...

[PortTack]

13. It should...hopefully we can kick cawthorn to the curb too. He won by a very small margin

[ananda]

18. That would be super good.

Here's hoping.

[Cha]

19. Rt TY!

[FakeNoose]

20. This is how we defeat the Repukes' efforts to disenfranchise American voters

Thank you North Carolina Democrats!

[RayStar]

21. Good news

This needs to happen in all states.

[Dopers_Greed]

22. Finally some good news

[Demovictory9]

23. Wow

[Grins]

24. Don't get excited.

Took forever to find out the court is Wake Superior Court. Not the state Supreme Court. The Party of Voter Suppression is going to appeal, so this has a ways to go.

Interesting that plaintiffs argued law went back to post reconstruction laws with the intent to block former slaves from voting - and the court agreed!