Greetings, fellow Kosians!
I’m extremely limited in time today, so this will be an even shorter diary than the last one, but I felt that this story deserved to be here on Kos.
From the Charlotte Observer:
On Friday, the State Board of Elections released the results of an extensive, objective audit of the 2016 election. It found that 4,769,640 votes were cast in November and that one (1) would probably have been avoided with a voter ID law. One out of nearly 4.8 million. [emphasis mine]
When a federal appeals court threw out North Carolina’s restrictive voting law last summer, saying it targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision,” Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore panned the judges and questioned their motives.
“We can only wonder if the intent is to reopen the door for voter fraud, potentially allowing fellow Democrat politicians like Hillary Clinton and Roy Cooper to steal the election,” they said.
The two jackasses Berger and Moore are in fact...Republicans. Go figure!
Them mentioning Hillary Clinton potentially stealing the election is rich! More GOP projection.
The probe found 41 non-citizens, from 28 countries, voted. All were here legally, but were not eligible to vote. The audit also found 24 cases of double-voting and two cases of voter impersonation (one by mail and one in person).
The Board of Elections announced it is taking steps to address these problems. In the case of felons and non-citizens, the primary cause appears to be a lack of understanding about the law. One option would be to let felons vote once they have been released from custody and still on probation, as many other states do.
Sadly, these findings won’t stop Republicans from shouting “voter fraud!” at every turn.
How else would they be justified in continuing their unethical Interstate Crosscheck voter-wiping and unnecessary voter ID laws?
Link to the Charlotte Observer article:
www.charlotteobserver.com/...