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highplainsdem

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Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:45 PM Saturday

Don't Say Vote: NC GOPers Want to Bar Election Officials From Encouraging Turnout (Democracy Docket)

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/dont-say-vote-nc-gopers-want-to-bar-election-officials-from-encouraging-turnout/

North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout.

It’s the latest and starkest example of a trend among Republicans of opposing even nonpartisan outreach efforts that could boost voting rates.

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.

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No, this is not a joke. This is real.

North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...

Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-07-19T16:32:08.807Z

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Don't Say Vote: NC GOPers Want to Bar Election Officials From Encouraging Turnout (Democracy Docket) (Original Post) highplainsdem Saturday OP
Insane n/t SickOfTheOnePct Saturday #1
NC and WI Rethugs are by far the worst of all swing state Rethugs as they have gerrymandered their way to state Celerity Saturday #2
"I get the feeling that people don't want democracy," underpants Saturday #3
Damn...... Lovie777 Saturday #4
The GOP is the party of voter suppression LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #5

Celerity

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2. NC and WI Rethugs are by far the worst of all swing state Rethugs as they have gerrymandered their way to state
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:51 PM
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assembly power that is MASSIVELY out of proportion to the electoral make-up of their states.

underpants

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3. "I get the feeling that people don't want democracy,"
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:54 PM
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“I get the feeling that people don’t want democracy,” Dahle told Democracy Docket.

Dahle said she fears that if it isn’t stopped, the idea of a ban on promoting turnout could spread to other states.

“I think North Carolina has become a testing ground,” Dahle said. “It’s become a place where [Republicans say], ‘let’s see if it works.’”

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