historically black college were brought by one guy. his name is pete gilbert, on the right, sitting at the table. he s going through students names. student name after student name. if you ve been registered to vote in recent years an encounter with him is likely for you. he lives in the same city ward that includes this historically black mostly african-american school. he says he challenges voters from that school specifically because that is his home precinct. elizabeth city state is on his turf. in north carolina, as that local republican has been trying to kick students off the rolls, he s relied on part of the law that lets you challenge people who vote in the same precinct as yours. the law also would have allowed him to challenge the student voters at the other school at the mostly white school across town, just not during an election. if he d wanted to make a big deal out of questioning the christian school student voters, too, he very easily could have done that, but he just
state at the historically black college. he said they didn t really live at the school. all of those challenges failed. then in november 2012, four students who voted in that election got their votes challenged, too. then a few months later in april 2013, there were so many challenges to elizabeth city state voters that the hearing lasted for hours. they challenged 60 voters that day, almost all of them students, at this mostly black college. 56 students had their names struck from the voting rolls in that round. and you know, you might say, why is this one school getting all these challenges while the other school in town says no problem? we re voting, we re never getting challenged and it s all okay. is it because one school is mostly black and the other one is mostly white? is it because one school is bigger? because one school is more conservative? or is it just because of this guy? all those challenges to the student voters at the local
historically black college were brought by one guy. his name is pete gilbert, on the right, sitting at the table. he s going through students names. student name after student name. if you ve been registered to vote in recent years an encounter with him is likely for you. he lives in the same city ward that includes this historically black mostly african-american school. he says he challenges voters from that school specifically because that is his home precinct. elizabeth city state is on his turf. in north carolina, as that local republican has been trying to kick students off the rolls, he s relied on part of the law that lets you challenge people who vote in the same precinct as yours. the law also would have allowed him to challenge the student voters at the other school at the mostly white school across town, just not during an election. if he d wanted to make a big deal out of questioning the christian school student voters, too, he very easily could have done that, but he just
2007, a local republican challenged the voting rights of 18 students at elizabeth city state at the historically black college. he said they didn t really live at the school. all of those challenges failed. then in november 2012, four students who voted in that election got their votes challenged, too. then a few months later in april 2013, there were so many challenges to elizabeth city state voters that the hearing lasted for hours. they challenged 60 voters that day, almost all of them students, at this mostly black college. 56 students had their names struck from the voting rolls in that round. and you know, you might say, why is this one school getting all these challenges while the other school in town says no problem? we re voting, we re never getting challenged and it s all okay. is it because one school is mostly black and the other one is mostly white? is it because one school is bigger? because one school is more conservative? or is it just because of this guy? all those cha
is it because one school is bigg bigger? because one school is more conservative? or is it just because of this guy? all those challenges to the student voters at the local historically black college were brought by one guy. his name is pete bigilbert, on e right, sitting at the table. he s going through students names. student name after student name. if you ve been registered to vote in recent years an encounter with him is likely for you. he lives in the same city ward that includes this historically black mostly african-american school. he says he challenges voters from that school specifically because that is his home precinct. elizabeth city state is on his turf. in north carolina, as that local republican has been trying to kick students off the rolls, he s relied on part of the law that lets you challenge people who vote in the same precinct as yours. the law also would have allowed him to challenge the student voters at the other school at