Update on the Attempt To Suppress Voting in NC

 

The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBOE) announced last month that it would be sending mailers to roughly 194,000 N.C. residents, directing them to update their voter registration information -- ultimate fall-out from the never-ending NC Supreme Court election involving one Jefferson Griffin and his accusations of illegitimacy against voters who were missing that information, and then the inevitable piling on of Trump's strong-arm enforcer (a.k.a. Dept. of Justice), which sued the SBOE.

Starting in 2013, NC’s voter registration form unintentionally appeared to make filling out a driver’s license number or Social Security number optional. Many registered in good faith using those faulty forms. In 2023, the SBOE fixed its form. But Pam Bondi demands that all incomplete registrants must be updated with missing info. Hence, an explanatory demand mailer going out now from the SBOE to a first batch of 103,270 North Carolina voters.

Bryan Anderson with the help of WCU prof Chris Cooper sussed out some statistics. While the average age of a North Carolina voter is 51.4 years, the average age of the voters with incomplete registrations is 38.9 years. (Anderson reminds us that it makes sense that people who registered with faulty forms during that 10-year span -- 2013-2023 -- are likely to be younger than the average voter.)

Of the first batch of 103,270 voters who need to cure their registrations, 63% are Unaffiliated, 23% are Democrat, 14% are Republican.