Okay everyone, I’m getting ready to talk about the New York Times — yes New York — and what appears to be their fixation with North Carolina.
In a follow-up New York Times blog, North Carolina: First in Voter Suppression to an earlier New York Times editorial, titled The Decline of North Carolina, David Firestone, projects editor, continued his/their attack on North Carolina.
While the Times’ editorial was a hodge-podge of criticism about this year’s legislative accomplishments, the newest article focused on North Carolina’s landmark election reform legislation.
For the most part it appears that Firestone is reciting Democracy NC (a Blueprint NC founding member) talking points in his article. Could be, since Bob Hall of Democracy NC, wrote a nasty little guest column for — that’s right — the New York Times a week after the first editorial. With a link to Democracy NC’s website, Firestone writes that “319,000 people who lack a photo ID and have a hard time voting.” To this point Mr. Firestone should have gotten back to Bob Hall, who has admitted that, even though it is his report, he knows that this number is way too high.
Firestone used the fact that President Obama won North Carolina by about 14,000 votes in 2008 to prove his point that Republicans were making these reforms because of politics. What Firestone forgot to mention was that President Obama lost North Carolina in 2012 by 92,004 votes.
But the funniest and probably most telling thing about Firestone’s article is when he condemns North Carolina for shortening early voting and eliminating same-day registration he fails to mention that New York does not allow early voting — AT ALL — and doesn’t allow same-day registration either. Talk about voter suppression. Maybe New York is trying to distract us all by calling North Carolina “first in voter suppression” while they don’t even allow early voting and to vote absentee they require an excuse!
With that kind of “reporting” we couldn’t expect Firestone to include the fact the Democrats, during their 140-year-reign, implemented many laws such as early voting (1996) and same-day registration (2008) in order to benefit their own party.
The following videos include Hans von Spakovsky’s explanation of the State Board of Elections report on who does and does not have ID in North Carolina. Von Spakovsky took part in a debate on voter photo ID hosted by the North Carolina Federalist Society on February 6, 2013.
dems down here going crazy and protesting every Monday and they call it moral Monday. morals! democrats? they are so pissed we turned to red state they can’t handle it! we are getting state back under control and trying to put morals back in N.N that dems have depleted. they are protesting money for education but are getting more than ever but with no raises cause last gov,[ democrat] screwed it up! feels good to be in a free state!
New York has enough problems of their own without concerning themselves with North Carolina. Early voting and same day registration just opens up voter and election fraud AND it is extremely costly to taxpayers. If you can’t go to the polls on election day, then vote via mail absentee.
So far the guys in New York have proved to me a bunch of “weiners” and “whiners”!
New York just needs to keep their nose in their own business and leave North Carolina alone!!!! We have by the grace of God finally got a governor who knows what he is doing, and he isn’t screwing the people like Perdue did. He is and will get North Carolina
on the right track!! Go Pat!!!!!
One more thing, as for early voting I wish they had done away with it all together! It is an open door for voter fraud! Same day registration is a joke!
Voter fraud will never be done away with until we get photo I.D.
Well BJ, the progressoes are already trying to figure out how to cheat via. absentee ballots though. I guess that will be the next area to address.
if NY is so freaking great…..why the hell are they all moving down HERE to NC?????
I would like to know why they are so fixated on NC. They need to mind their own business, and focus on their own state.
Voter ID is needed. In the last election, I was able to change my address and vote in early voting (we were in a new precinct, had just moved), WITHOUT any form of ID, proof of address, or any other identification. It was alarming to me how easy it was for them to just change my information. The precinct official wouldn’t even look at my driver’s license or anything else for proof of address change.
Did you see this D.G. Martin column from a couple of days ago? Compares our NC General Assembly to Nazi Germany!!! The left is going unhinged. This column is usually conservative (or have I been fooled) but this time I believe a hacker must have written it!
http://themountaineer.villagesoup.com/p/egypt-nazi-germany-and-north-carolina/1037023