The Party of Unity, Civility, and Equity – the self-proclaimed anti-discrimination advocates – has a messaging conflict. North Carolina Republicans just overrode their Dem Governor’s veto of a bill that required election boards to include members of both political parties.
The Left’s ideological purity test just took a shot to the soft bits, and they are screaming mad.
The bill, SB 749, made material changes to the state’s election law by establishing bipartisan election boards, according to The Hill.
The bill would take control of election boards away from the governor’s party and put them under the control of a group split equally between Democrats and Republicans. This, Cooper claims, will create gridlock when deciding early-voting locations and certifying results.
I am always amused when a Democrat decries top-down control, claiming it interferes with local governance. Listen as Democrat Ray Cooper whines.
“The legislative takeover of state and local elections boards could doom our state’s elections to gridlock and severely limit early voting. It also creates a grave risk that Republican legislators or courts would be empowered to change the results of an election if they don’t like the winner,” he wrote in a Sept. 28 statement.
“That’s a serious threat to our democracy, particularly after the nation just saw a presidential candidate try to strongarm state officials into reversing his losing election results. Courts have already ruled the ideas in this bill unconstitutional, and voters overwhelmingly said no when the legislature tried to change the constitution,” Cooper exclaimed.
I’m not clear on all the details in SB 749, and to be honest, I was trying to find more not Israel/Hamas content before we turned into GazaGrok, but if we’re only talking about locals picking local Republicans and Democrats to serve on local election boards to oversee local elections, how exactly is that “taking control”?
How different is it from licensure or state regs for police, fire, or other professional positions? The State does that and more without batting an eye as the Political Left leads the charge.
The obvious answer is this. Democrats cheat, and if Republicans are allowed to observe by force of law, it is more difficult. And that, to the Left, is a threat to Democracy.
