AltWeeklies Wire
Voter Integrity Project boot camp teaches how to challenge votersnew
"If you're going on intuition, you will have to prove you're not racist."
Play the N.C. Voter ID Game!new
In the waning days of its legislative session, the North Carolina General Assembly is tackling a key tenet of democracy: voting. And by tackling we mean pummeling, trouncing and mowing it down.
In N.C., 40 counties are no longer governed by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Actnew
Voting advocates worry that county and state leaders will now have the leverage to pursue redistricting intended to pack minority voters into districts, marginalizing their voting power.
Like a Bad Rash, N.C. Voter ID Bill Returnsnew
In North Carolina, 506,000 active registered voters don't have photo ID: 31 percent are African-American, 66 percent are women, 26 percent are seniors and 53 percent are Democrats, compared to 23 percent who are Republican.
Tags: North Carolina Voter ID
Election shows impact of redistricting and why voting-rights groups are suingnew
Even though North Carolinians split their 2012 votes almost evenly between the parties, far fewer Democrats were elected than Republicans. Voting-rights groups are pointing to the results to press their case that the 2011 redistricting maps should be thrown out.
Tags: redistricting
In Wake County, European election observers critique the processnew
Election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say they saw a process that lived up to America's voting laws, but they had harsher criticisms for the impact of outside spending and our two-party system.
What went wrong for North Carolina's Democrats?new
The Republicans' 2010 victory—which happened as a national census ensured newly drawn voting districts, coupled with the windfall of campaign donations that bolster incumbents—struck a mortal blow to this year's crop of Democrats.
Tags: NC Democratic Party
My first vote as a U.S. citizennew
Prior to this year, I had never felt like my living here, but not voting, mattered in a presidential election. But it does now.
What's fueling Obama's full-court press: Hope turns to fearnew
If the Obama campaign can turn out people who don't regularly make it to the polls, it may have discovered a strategy to rival the big money of Romney's Super PACs and television advertising.
GOP learns from its mistakes of 2008: New push in North Carolinanew
"If Republicans have expended less resources to win North Carolina, it's because they have a lower bar to clear to win it." — GOP strategist Dee Stewart
Conservative pastor advocates sitting out presidential electionnew
The Rev. Patrick Wooden of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh is asking his 3,000 congregants to abstain from voting for president because neither candidate, in his eyes, upholds the Christian values he espouses.
A journey through the 2012 Democratic National Conventionnew
The March on Wall Street South, convention speeches, Planned Parenthood, the DREAM Team, Share Our Strength, the N.C. delegation and a Bronx rapper named Rodstarz: I am riveted by the new, emboldened Democratic Party.
RNC Day 5: Tossed from the Art Pope-David Koch cocktail partynew
Police called on several credentialed journalists trying to cover event
Tags: RNC 2012
RNC Day 4: In his speech, Paul Ryan doesn't let facts get in the waynew
The vice presidential nominee's speech was rife with errors.
The GOP hatches a plan to win North Carolina. Will it work?new
Is North Carolina in play? Or as Nate Silver of The New York Times recently wrote, does it matter in the electoral math?
