Saturday, September 28, 2024

Sad News, For All Who Love Their Conspiracies

 

Kyle Ingram, in the News&Observer:


RALEIGH After the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced Thursday that it had removed nearly 750,000 registrations from the voter rolls, misinformation spread on social media regarding the scope and circumstances of this decision. 

“They’re trying to steal this election,” one X user wrote. 

“I’m sure it’s one big, giant, coincidence that NC is doing this a month before Election Day,” another wrote. 

Others fretted that the removal was a ploy by the Republican Party to influence the outcome of the election in a battleground state. The truth, however, is that this was a routine process carried out over the course of nearly two years by a state agency with bipartisan oversight. 

“Eligible voters do not need to worry that they were removed from the system,” Pat Gannon, a spokesperson for the board, said. “However, election officials always encourage voters to check their registration through the state board’s voter search tool.”


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There doesn’t seem to be a way to contact this blog to suggest a blog idea.
So jw would you ask out:
Where are our elected officials?
Mayor?
County Commissioners?
Ralph Hise? Rearranged our elections but doesn’t seem to be here.
Stein, as attn general?
Coooer?
Foxx?
Et al
The area is in bad shape.
Statements are great but feet on the ground gets things done.