Quote (BardOfXiix @ Nov 21 2016 01:43am)
North Carolina might actually have a complaint.
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Know-Your-Rights-State-Laws-on-Employee-Time-Off-to-VoteAccording to the AFL-CIO, North Carolina doesn't grant workers any time off to vote. Neither does Florida, but apparently most local areas do have rules (Wisconsin gives 3 hours). But we're here about North Carolina, seeing as the OP's article didn't mention poll hours as a problem for Florida, so let's get down to brass tacks.
North Carolina limiting polling hours could obviously be seen as voter suppression. Unless there is a disastrously low number of volunteers or poll workers for this cycle, which is a Google mission that might take longer than 30 seconds, there's no good reason to limit the number of hours polls are open unless you're trying to limit the number of people who might have access to those polls. And naturally, limited hours hurts those who work jobs that may not be 9-5. Like low income workers. Who tend to be black. Students have no fucking excuse, so don't play that card to me.
So we might have one legitimate example of election fixing out of three examples presented. Here's my question: where's the excuse for Pennsylvania, which went blue in consecutive elections as far back as I was willing to check (not far tbh)? How about Ohio, which went blue for both of Obama's wins? Or the good ol' mitten, Michigan, where I gave plenty of shit to my non-political friends over their election of a meme as president? The bottom line is this: excuses can be made for either party in a swing state. The trend that was presented by the election of Trump is clear, despite whatever excuses liberal media wants to throw at us: the nation rejected Hillary. Why? I dunno. Being scummy, being a woman, being a liberal, hating black people...I can't tell you. Pick your poison. What I can tell you is that the widespread trend this electoral cycle cannot be easily explained away by "voter suppression" or by claims of cheating. The nation made a statement, and that statement was that they preferred Trump over Hillary.
As far as I remember when the NC polling changes were in the works it was the same exact amount of hours, just different days than the original, more days, less hours per day, or something like that. The changes were announced 3 years ahead of time, people had plenty of time and notice to adjust and some may have failed to do so.
Most of the hours and days (again from what I recall) that were changed had to do with closing down on those hours/days that got the least amount of voter turnout and adjusting to be open more when traffic is heavier. Which is the opposite intended action of supression.
This post was edited by Mangix on Nov 28 2016 03:01pm