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Elections
Georgia Sec. of State Discusses His State’s Experience With Photo ID
Brian Kemp, Georgia's Secretary of State, was the speaker at the Civitas Conservative Leadership Conference: Battleground 2012 breakfast on Saturday, March 3, 2012. Kemp has ... Keep Reading
Public Financing for Candidates Drying Up
State public campaign funding for key races is drying up, a situation with significant implications for a number of candidates in this coming election season. The funding for ... Keep Reading
Debunking Voter Photo ID Myths
Who are the opponents of a voter ID requirement? If we rely only on mainstream media, we would believe that all minority groups, especially African Americans and registered ... Keep Reading
The Democrats’ Charlotte Convention: Opportunity Costs?
With eleven months to go before the start of the 2012 Democratic National Convention (Convention) in Charlotte, many questions remain to be answered. The Convention has been sold ... Keep Reading
SBOE Flip Flops on Absentee Ballot Request
First Approves DemocracyNC, Then Denies Request from GOP For a time, Bob Hall (Director, DemocracyNC) was the only person outside of the State Board of Elections (SBOE) who knew ... Keep Reading
Mayer Flails – and Fails in New Yorker Article
Add Jane Mayer to the list of liberals trolling the backwaters of North Carolina politics desperately looking for evidence to validate the lefts’s predetermined conclusion that Art ... Keep Reading
Redistricting Maps: Politicized or Payback?
The first North Carolina legislative and congressional redistricting maps drawn by Republicans since Reconstruction have passed the General Assembly, and they have been greeted ... Keep Reading
My Opportunity for Voter Fraud
The hot voter ID button seems to only be getting hotter these days. Many arguments have been floating around as to why or why not HB 351, “Restore Confidence in Government,” ... Keep Reading
New Maps Rankle Old Majority
So the maps are out, and not surprisingly, so are the hecklers. The General Assembly recently released the legislative redistricting maps that will be in place for the next ... Keep Reading