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wildeyed

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4. They are proposing to deadlock the Board of Elections and then make nearly impossible

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Thu Dec 15, 2016, 03:21 PM

Dec 2016

to appeal cases to the judiciary. It will be nearly impossible to run an election in this state if it passes. I am sure that is the point. They break it and then use that as an excuse to throw it away. Poof. No more elections...

It is a diabolically vicious piece of legislation. The NC GOP must have gotten tons of help form ALEC because they are not bright enough to do something like this on their own.

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Cooper threatens to sue over North Carolina GOP 'power grab' [View all] kwassa Dec 2016 OP

Yep...if you can't win the governorship fair and square,... SpankMe Dec 2016 #1

Wake up Dems. Your inability to drag yourselves to the polls Nov.8 oasis Dec 2016 #2

It's an attempt to overturn the voters' decision bucolic_frolic Dec 2016 #3

There was a funny user comment regarding the GOP's pointless attempt to stop the Michigan recount. LisaM Dec 2016 #8

They are proposing to deadlock the Board of Elections and then make nearly impossible wildeyed Dec 2016 #4

More proposals detailed in a Slate article: Qutzupalotl Dec 2016 #5

Actually, they might have lost the supreme court election because of DU. wildeyed Dec 2016 #6

Likely so. I think that's why DU was hacked: Qutzupalotl Dec 2016 #10

That OUR servers should be a target of ANYTHING during an election Volaris Dec 2016 #11

Agreed. But we have more eyes and ears around than the feds do or can Qutzupalotl Dec 2016 #12

Repugs are fighting dirty and past time for Dems to fight dirty also. riversedge Dec 2016 #7

DO IT. Maven Dec 2016 #9