VT Grad working at the NSA looks up from screen GOBBLE ! <| sep |> I ' m a former Roman Catholic . I have a lot of affection for the Catholic Church , I just feel that it ' s on the wrong path and has some wrong ideas . <| sep |> A wild Mkhitaryan appears <| sep |> Yea it sucks especially when you see the positive . Not everyone wants that <| sep |> North Carolina is ground zero for vote suppression . We aren ' t going to pretend that state doesn ' t actively work to make it harder for people to vote are we ? Here are some examples s m o k i n g g u n p r o v i n g n o r t h c a r o l i n a r e p u b l i c a n s t r i e d t o d i s enfranchiseblackvotersThe federal court in Richmond found that the primary purpose of North Carolina ' s wasn ' t to stop voter fraud , but rather to disenfranchise minority voters . The judges found that the provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision . In particular , the court found that North Carolina lawmakers requested data on racial differences in voting behaviors in the state . This data showed that African Americans disproportionately lacked the most common kind of photo ID , those issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles DMV , the judges wrote . So the legislators made it so that the only acceptable forms of voter identification were the ones disproportionately used by white people . With race data in hand , the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative photo IDs used by African Americans , the judges wrote . The bill retained only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess . and t h i s c a r o l i n a c o u n t i e s t h a t s l a s h e d e a r l y v o t i n g s i tesseehourslonglinesfcffa 0151748 #. bqzcatkgoThis year , 17 North Carolina counties will provide fewer total early voting hours than in 2012 , and three counties that offered early voting on a Sunday in 2012 got rid of that option . Though the state is offering more early voting hours overall than residents had in 2012 , many counties are offering no evening hours , making access difficult for people who work one or more jobs . One of the areas with the longest lines this weekCharlotte ' s Mecklenburg Countyoffered 22 locations for the first day of early voting in 2012 . This year , they offered only 10 . Voters reported waiting for more than three hours to cast a ballot . and t h i s u s a e l e c t i o n n o rthcarolinainsightidUSKBN 12 Y 0 ZYIn emails , state and county Republican officials lobbied members of at least 17 county election boards to keep earlyvoting sites open for shorter hours on weekends and in evenings times that usually see disproportionately high turnout by Democratic voters . Reuters obtained the emails through a public records request . and t h i s c a r o l i n a s r a c i s t votersuppressionisworking . htmlIn three counties , boards of elections canceled thousands of voter registrations based on outrageous rules that allow anyone to challenge another person ' s voter registration based on a single piece of returned mail . In at least one of those counties , the mail campaign was itself organized by the secretary of the local Republican Party , N . Carol Wheeldon . and t h i s n o r t h c a r o l i n a v o t e r c h a l l engeprocessseemsinsaneThe NAACP says counties are violating federal law by removing voters less than 90 days before the election . However , state officials say the process complements federal law and preserves dueprocess rights . U . S . District Judge Loretta Biggs said the process sounds insane . This sounds like something that was put together in 1901 , she told lawyers for the state . Biggs also said she was horrified by the number of removals in Cumberland County , which accounted for most of the statewide total . It almost looks like a cattle call , the way people are being purged , she told county attorney Rick Moorefield . and t h isstealornullifyelectiona Raleigh think tank that serves as a policy shop for the legislature ' s GOP supermajority , floated the idea that lawmakers could add two Supreme Court seats to as the Foundation put it blunt the election ' s impact . Morgan ' s inauguration will give Democrats a 43 majority on a court that is nominally nonpartisan . But , in a blog post , Locke political analyst Mitch Kokai noted that the state constitution permits lawmakers to add two more seats , which they could do in December by calling a special session to respond to the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew . McCrory will still be governor next month , so he could theoretically appoint two Republican judges , giving the GOP a 54 advantage . and t h i s r e a l l y g o i n g o n i n n o r t h c arolinasgubernatorialrace 508520 Finally , there ' s been a great deal of national attention given to the possibility that the General Assembly could intervene and hand the election to McCrory . State law says that in a contested election , the legislature should either determine who won the most votes or , if unable to do that , call a new election . The law further says that decision is not reviewable by state courts . Slate wrote that McCrory ' s real goal appears to be to delegitimize the results to such an extent that the state legislaturewhich holds a Republican supermajoritycan step in and select him as the winner .