The "Don't Say Vote" Bill in the General Assembly

 

[Democracy Docket] North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill [H 958) that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout....

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

Rep. Allison Dahle, the top Democrat on North Carolina’s House Elections committee, was blunter.

“I get the feeling that people don’t want democracy,” Dahle told Democracy Docket.