Get this, John: Opponents of voting rights in North Carolina have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. This is just the latest and starkest example of a trend among the vote suppressors of opposing even nonpartisan outreach efforts that could boost voting rates.

This bill would also take more than a third of existing nonpartisan staff positions at the state elections office and convert them to jobs for partisan political appointees deeply invested in the results of the elections they would be in charge of. Finally, the measure would add new voting restrictions for military and overseas voters, and ban ranked choice voting. 

The bill and proposed ban on promoting turnout “raises real questions about what democracy means in North Carolina, who really holds the power, who government is answering to” according to Andrew Garber, a counsel in the nonpartisan Brennan Center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program.

Opponents of voting rights in North Carolina are more focused on expanding and cementing their own power than they are in serving the people and having fair elections. It's just another example of what they'll export around the country if they get away with it here.

This troubling bill has the potential to impact us all, no matter what state we live in. Please pitch in $25 or whatever you can today to help us stop voter suppression in North Carolina and across the country >>

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Wondering how this impacts you? It's as simple as this: Rep. Allison Dahle, a top defender of voting rights on North Carolina’s House Elections committee, said, “I think North Carolina has become a testing ground. It’s become a place where they say, ‘let’s see if it works.’”

For decades, the voter suppression movement has taken bills that pass in one state and exported them across the country. The leaders at a sprawling, dark money conservative think-tank have taken credit for it, caught on camera bragging about writing the legislation at their headquarters. For example -- the sweeping suppression bill passed in Georgia in March of 2021 was adapted and passed in states like Texas, Florida, and beyond in the months afterward.

It's all just the latest extreme anti-democracy tactic pioneered by North Carolina vote suppressors over the last decade or so. In 2016, a court found that the state’s voter suppression law targeted Black voters with “surgical precision.” They drew multiple gerrymandered maps, and stripped the new governor of several election-related powers before he took office. After the 2024 election, they waged a months-long campaign, ultimately unsuccessful, to overturn a Supreme Court race by having over 65,000 valid votes thrown out after the vote-counting, and two recounts, had been completed. It's not going to end until we stop them.

We have to fight back every time they try to chip away at our fundamental right to vote. Will you chip in $25 or whatever you can today to stop this bill and suppression bills like it nationwide? >>

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