Republican idiocy

We'll start out with another field-grade officer gone wrong:

HendersonGOP 12:44pm via Twitter for Android
RT @NCCivitas: Civitas President: NC Election Chief Lying. bit.ly/UPEgB7 #NCPol #ConsNC

Francis, many of your readers may fall for the "voter integrity" bullshit you claim is behind this attack, but you and I both know better. Your real goal is to get rid of early voting, and the goal behind that is to have fewer people take part in our Democratic process. I put on my uniform and served for exactly the opposite reason: to defend the rights of my fellow citizens to take part in that process. Why did you put on your uniform?

But it's not clear (to me) what her options are:

Unfortunately, Goodwin added, “the shot clock has pretty much run out unless the clock is rewound.” The General Assembly hasn’t passed enabling legislation, so the state probably will yield control initially to the feds. It should try to take a larger role as soon as possible, but it may be locked in to a system it wouldn’t choose for itself.

I saw a statement recently by (I think) Harold Brubaker saying it was "up to the Governor", but since this piece of trash is the only thing to come out of the GOP's broken Legislative machine:

First off, a call to arms...or not arm...anyway:

gregflynn 2:38pm via Tweet Button Affirm that the State of North Carolina is and will continue to be one of these United States of America. http://wh.gov/9SuM #ncpol

In case you haven't been keeping up, our Union is once more in jeopardy:

There's no way to put a positive spin on yesterday's outcome for state-level politics. I fear that what we saw coming out of the Legislature for the last two years was merely a foreshadowing of future events. And I'm sure there are many reading this who don't believe there's anything we can do about this until the next election.

Well, I'm here to tell you that you are wrong.

And sew confusion in the process:

Dean of Service Cathy Kramer said many of the people who got the wrong ballots were first-time voters. “They feel upset, and they feel angry about it,” she said.

I don't blame them. There can't be a good reason to separate 1,000 students from their classmates. Either demographics or an intentional desire to confuse must have driven this, because the mapmakers aren't that stupid.

It should have been addressed to the NC GOP:

The Republican-lead General Assembly twice rejected attempts to draw down $4.1 million in federal funds that would have been used to prepare for this election. Much of that money would have gone toward...wait for it ... re-calibrating voting machines, arranging for additional Election Day technicians, and poll worker training, such as was requested in the RNC letter.

That's because Republicans (here and elsewhere) don't really believe in our system of elections, where everybody gets to vote. If it were up to them, only a select group of privileged individuals would decide things, and you don't need thousands of machines for that.

One of the drawbacks to being wealthy enough to own multiples homes:

Justin LaNasa, a Wilmington business owner and former GOP candidate for various city and county offices, filed an official challenge to Gott's voter registration, citing laws that requires voters to cast ballots in the jurisdiction in which they maintain a permanent home. His challenge set in motion a legal process that ended with Tuesday's hearing.

Apparently this is one of those, "If I can't do it, nobody can!" thingies: