North Carolina election officials are trying to fine-tune the way the state handles same-day voter registration as Republican legislators seek to make it easier
Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in July against New York City after it failed to clean voter rolls for years. The lawsuit, filed under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), pointed out that New York City removed only 22 names under the federal law over six years ( Judicial Watch v Valentine et al.
and many wisconsins couldn t vote in the last election many of color. the two largest populations of african-americans and democratic voters in the state of wisconsin, the 20,000 people were not able to vote because of the voter id law. my organization, we went to court and went in federal court and beat scott walker when it came to attacking early voting rights in the state of wisconsin, and once we got some of the laws thrown out, when you give people a 21st century voting model they will vote and use the right to vote and we shattered early voting records here in the state of wisconsin in the 2016 elections. it has been top to bottom in attack on voter rights when it s voter intimidation or suppression. they were doing voter caging, for god sakes. they can t win in the court of public opinion, and we will have to see what happens in the supreme court. it feels like a lot of what we are see something locking in
last night you broke some news within the e-mails, not new e-mails but within the trove that was released. i m going to read, if you come this saturday, i can show you how to cage. that will be the priority on the weekend. . in another e-mail she said we need cagers for this saturday, we ll have plenty to get caught up on. clearly there s been suspicions in vote caging in wisconsin for a very long time. this is pretty obviously the smoking gun. there are a lot of little smoking guns in these e-mails. this is one of them. i think this is something that needs to be looked into further. voter caging, to suppress the vote particularly, to suppress
year. we re rallying in 25 cities this friday, there s a march this saturday, there s your petition drive. b but, will, let me ask you, in maryland, the doctrine there was and i m reading what they have written out, promote confusion, emotionalism and frustration among african-american democrats focused in precincts where high concentrations of african-american votes. that was maryland. do you know of other schemes around the country, will? oh, there s no question. we saw other efforts in 2010. these robo calls. we ve seen the misinformation campaigns. we ve also seen voter caging, a process in which they send out post cards to people. if you don t return the postcard, then they question your residency and add you to a list when you show up at the polls, question whether or not you re actually qualified to vote. that happened in 1982 in new