voter supression

The DC non profit "Women's Voices Women Vote" is at it again confusing voters & burying election officials in unneccesary paperwork. WVWV has even mailed voter registration forms to 6 & 14 yr olds, dead persons, registered voters, even the Chairman of the EAC - the federal agency that overseas elections. One way to disenfranchise voters is to "gum up" the system that enfranchises them.

This is not just a case of voter supression. This is a political hot potato that some media and even some voting activists won't talk about or report on because it offends some of their base. But wrong is wrong! SIX days ahead of the North Carolina primary a "Jim Crow" effort was aimed at supressing the African American vote. A group called Women's Voices Women's Vote (WVWV) has been placing robocalls to voters across North Carolina that leads voters to think that they are not registered to vote. The North Carolina NAACP has filed a complaint and also alerted the Department of Justice.

What are the real causes of decreased voter turnout? Its not due to lack of convenience. If we don't examine the real causes we won't come up with a real solution...
Some of the main causes are: decreased voter registration efforts by govt agencies, problems and errors within voter registration databases, and supressive photo id requirements in some states.

The North Carolina Senate has passed the same day voter registration that will allow state residents to register to vote and cast a ballot immediately before an election. By actually casting their votes to enfranchise voters, the NC Senate members show some actual bi-partisan ability to do what is right for the people of our state. Not that it was very bi-partisan, but four Republicans joined in on agreeing that this is the right thing to do.

According to Southernstudies.org:

Today, in a public barbecuing, Les Merritt defended his audit of NC's voter rolls and said he didn't want his review to be seen as partisan. Merritt's defense was mostly his "preliminary" findings or what some call - "cough cough yahomina yahomina hom"... His final report shows nothing wrong with the voting rolls. This had to be painful to watch. Afternoon edit: What is the DOJ up to? That remains to be answered.