voter suppression

http://www.ncleg.net/Applications/RTS/hce.aspx

Public comments will be taken on April 10, 2013 beginning at 4:00 p.m. in Room 643 of the Legislative Office Building.

If the online sign up fills up, you can sign up to speak in person at the table just outside of the hearing. That's how I and many others got a chance to speak last time. It'd be nice if they gave the public more than a week's notice, or had it not during a workday, but asking for an accessible hearing about efforts to make voting less accessible is probably too much to hope for.

From Jane Pinsky earlier today on FB:

Several non-partisan groups are looking for people to volunteer to be poll monitors, i.e. to make sure no voter is turned away at a polling place or not given the correct answer to a question. It will probably start with early voting on October 18th and stretch through election day. There will be training for all poll monitors and assistance just a phone call away.

You could work as little as two hours a day for a few days during early voting - or 6 or 8 hours on election day. And you will feel good because you have helped other citizens cast their ballots.

if you are interested contact Bob Phillips at Common Cause North Carolina - bphillips@commoncause.org ASAP

If the Voter Integrity Project were a registered voter its vote could be successfully challenged on the basis that it uses forms of address not recognized as valid by the US Postal Service, which can cause mail to be returned to senders as “Undeliverable”. This anomaly serves to highlight the dangers to voter access posed by various gratuitously strict matching requirements that have been proposed for forms of identity verification for in-person voting.

The right wing Voter Integrity Project, which has been challenging voter registrations in NC, uses an address form that gives the illusion of a physical address but which is actually a Private Mail Box (PMB) at a Raleigh UPS Store.