Megathread: Republican Voter Suppression

exGOPer said:
I get it, they reduced the polling places and made them more distant to make it easier for people to go vote. Makes sense.
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Once again you demonstrate you have not read the information in detail and are only pushing points out of context to drive your political agenda rather than the truth. Lets' focus on the facts:
  • The largest growing counties in North Carolina reduced the most polling places as they relocated smaller polling venues to larger more geographically distributed ones.
  • All of these large growing counties (near Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte) have Democratic majority election boards which decided on the polling locations.
  • The population change as many more people moved into growing areas shifted to the suburbs from old downtown areas. Having more geographic distribution of polling places to allow easier access to voting for over 80% of the population makes sense rather than forcing everyone to go downtown. The only people who may not like the reduction in the number of polling places downtown are those who live there.
  • Currently over 90% of the state population has a voting venue within 5 miles of them on election day. That number formerly was under 30% a mere two decades ago. Even with a reduced number of polling places - easy access to voting has improved.
  • The Republican majority state legislature made voting days & hours uniform across the state .
  • The Republican majority state legislature increased the number of early voting hours by over 24,000.
  • The biggest complainers over the increased voting hours were the Democratic majority election boards in growing counties. They did not like the increased hours since it represents an added expense.

How in your fantasy is the above a form of "voter suppression"?
 
gwb-trading said:
Once again you demonstrate you have not read the information in detail and are only pushing points out of context to drive your political agenda rather than the truth. Lets' focus on the facts:
  • The largest growing counties in North Carolina reduced the most polling places as they relocated smaller polling venues to larger more geographically distributed ones.
  • All of these large growing counties (near Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte) have Democratic majority election boards which decided on the polling locations.
  • The population change as many more people moved into growing areas shifted to the suburbs from old downtown areas. Having more geographic distribution of polling places to allow easier access to voting for over 80% of the population makes sense rather than forcing everyone to go downtown. The only people who may not like the reduction in the number of polling places downtown are those who live there.
  • Currently over 90% of the state population has a voting venue within 5 miles of them on election day. That number formerly was under 30% a mere two decades ago. Even with a reduced number of polling places - easy access to voting has improved.
  • The Republican majority state legislature made voting days & hours uniform across the state .
  • The Republican majority state legislature increased the number of early voting hours by over 24,000.
  • The biggest complainers over the increased voting hours were the Democratic majority election boards in growing counties. They did not like the increased hours since it represents an added expense.

How in your fantasy is the above a form of "voter suppression"?
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My point is that all this was done strategically, to make it difficult for Dem voters to exercise their rights. The relocation was not a result of some cold impartial logic as you are making it out to be.
 
exGOPer said:
My point is that all this was done strategically, to make it difficult for Dem voters to exercise their rights. The relocation was not a result of some cold impartial logic as you are making it out to be.
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The relocation of the majority of the polling places in our state were determined by Democratic majority county election boards in urban areas. This was done under mandates from the Obama administration FEC that polling places be within a certain distance of a certain % of the voters.

Let me tell you what voter suppression actually looks like. For over 100 years until 2010 the state of North Carolina had a Democratic majority legislature. Similarly most urban county and cities had (and still have) Democratic majorities.

The majority of Democratic voters lived in the downtown areas while the majority of Republican voters tended to live in the suburbs. For many years the Democratic majority on county election boards forced the suburban voters to drive long distances to the downtown to small polling places with limited parking in order to vote. This was (as stated by the Democrats) a deliberate attempt to suppress the suburban vote.

We can actually thank the Obama administration FEC for putting an end to this practice. But, of course, the Democrats are now claiming that placing polling venues in suburban areas is a form of "voter suppression". Nothing could be further from the truth.
 
In other great news from the 2018 election a large majority of the population of North Carolina voted to support a state constitutional amendment requiring picture voter id.
 
exGOPer said:
Source please
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Go read all the posted articles.

Maybe you should read the information rather than continually asking for citations as a re-direct. Maybe you should educate yourself on the role of county elections boards and how they establish polling locations in most states including North Carolina. The state legislature does not establish polling locations with the sole exception being rules about polling locations as public universities (which the state government owns).
 
gwb-trading said:
Go read all the posted articles.

Maybe you should read the information rather than continually asking for citations as a re-direct. Maybe you should educate yourself on the role of county elections boards and how they establish polling locations in most states including North Carolina. The state legislature does not establish polling locations with the sole exception being rules about polling locations as public universities (which the state government owns).
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Go read what? Just post the link for your new claim or indicate which old link contained evidence for this particular claim.
 
exGOPer said:
Go read what? Just post the link for your new claim or indicate which old link contained evidence for this particular claim.
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Yeah... we understand that you are so completely stuck on your political agenda that you are unable to read and educate yourself with the facts.
 
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