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  • Another Look at Voter Photo ID Myths and F.A.Q.’s

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Alex Rector on June 22, 2012

    Voter photo ID (House Bill 351) has been dead in the water since Gov. Perdue cut it down with her veto pen last June. Speculation looms that if Republican Candidate Pat McCrory wins the governorship this November, HB 351 would have a sure shot at being passed without fear of veto. The legislation would require [...]

  • Voter Photo ID ‘Compromise’ Is a Sham

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Susan Myrick on June 18, 2012

    Republican leaders are determined to pass a voter ID bill this session and they say their resolve is fueled by promises they made to voters during the 2010 election. Unfortunately, these leaders believe that a bad bill is better than no bill and will offer a compromise to HB 351 (Restore Confidence in Government), the [...]

  • Prosecutors Ignore Illegal Voter Registration in NC

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Matt Willoughby on May 15, 2012

    (ORRUM,NC) – A Robeson County man is outraged because a group home registered his mentally challenged sister to vote without his knowledge. The State Board of Elections Counsel, Don Wright, says that is a felony by state law but he says prosecutors don’t pursue such cases. Tim Farabaugh is a retired pipefitter and a Civil [...]

  • Not all the dust has settled from last week’s election.

    Posted in Elections & Voting, Issues by Bob Luebke on May 15, 2012

    Not all the dust has settled from last week’s election. Among the topics still reverberating around North Carolina:  Marriage Amendment. North Carolina was the 30th state to approve language prohibiting gay marriage and the last in the South to do so. Ninety-three of the state’s 100 counties had majorities voting in favor of the amendment. [...]

  • Civitas Candidate Survey Update: The Non-Responders

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Karen Duquette on April 17, 2012

    Over 150 candidates have responded to our Civitas survey so far! Surveys were mailed to all Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Council of State, and NCGA candidates. Please check out those who have responded here. They have taken the time to let voters know their thoughts and views on important policy issues affecting you. However, we also [...]

  • Georgia Sec. of State Discusses His State’s Experience With Photo ID

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Susan Myrick on March 5, 2012

    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 served as Georgia Secretary of State since January, 2010 and is Georgia’s Chief Elections Administrator.  Since taking office, Secretary Kemp has established his state as a national model for election [...]

  • Public Financing for Candidates Drying Up

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Matt Willoughby on February 7, 2012

    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 three Council of State races (auditor, insurance commissioner and superintendent of public instruction) has virtually run out, while “rescue funds” will no longer be available to supposedly [...]

  • Debunking Voter Photo ID Myths

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Susan Myrick on December 12, 2011

    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 Democrats, oppose any legislation requiring a voter to present photo ID in order to cast a vote. Consequently it may come as a surprise to learn that [...]

  • The Democrats’ Charlotte Convention: Opportunity Costs?

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Clark Riemer on November 14, 2011

    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 to the public as a win-win for North Carolina where national attention and money will be showered on the state with little to no cost to the [...]

  • SBOE Flip Flops on Absentee Ballot Request

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Susan Myrick on November 7, 2011

    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 he was approved for an absentee ballot request form that violated state law. An absentee ballot request form is necessary for a voter to receive an [...]

  • Mayer Flails – and Fails in New Yorker Article

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Bob Luebke on October 11, 2011

    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 Pope bought control of North Carolina politics. Mayer, who authored the recent New Yorker piece on Art Pope, claims to be an investigative journalist. However, her work argues against [...]

  • Redistricting Maps: Politicized or Payback?

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Neal Inman on August 2, 2011

    The first North Carolina legislative and congressional redistricting maps drawn by Republicans since Reconstruction have passed the General Assembly, and they have been greeted with caterwauling from Democrats claiming they give an unfair advantage to their opponents. The media has largely allowed Democrats to articulate these complaints without mentioning their party’s long, sordid affair with [...]

  • My Opportunity for Voter Fraud

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Will Garvey on July 26, 2011

    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,” should be passed.  I would like to share a slightly different perspective on the issue. In the 2008 General Election I found myself in [...]

  • New Maps Rankle Old Majority

    Posted in Elections & Voting, Issues, Legislative Activity by Andrew Henson on July 19, 2011

    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 decade.  These maps have been met with  an understandable fury of protest by Democrats who will soon face Republican-drawn districts for the first time in modern [...]

  • End to Public Campaign Financing Means Increased Taxpayer Savings

    Posted in Elections & Voting by Karen Duquette on July 12, 2011

    Recently the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Arizona law claiming to support “clean elections,” ruling 5-4 to uphold our free speech rights and finding the law unconstitutional. The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act of 1998 established a system of campaign finance that dispenses taxpayer dollars to candidates who accept certain campaign restrictions, most notably [...]

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