This Charlotte Observer article is all about Organizing for America (NC Democratic Party) and Obama for America (Obama’s re-election campaign) working in North Carolina to register voters and add them to their email lists in hopes of a repeat of the 2008 General Election. The North Carolina Obama for America director said that they had [...]
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Absentee Ballot Fraud – Omen or Opportunity?
Here is another story about absentee ballot irregularities, this time in Lincoln County. Does anyone else remember during the 2011 Legislature’s voter ID debate, the liberal voices declaring that voter ID isn’t needed because people do not commit voter fraud by impersonation and that the real fraud takes place in absentee ballots? I thought these statements [...]
State Representative Dale Folwell Not Running for Re-election
After seven years in the State House of Representatives Rep. Dale Folwell (R-Forsyth) won’t run for re-election next year. As Folwell said, he “cut his teeth” when the Republican Party was in the minority. He rose to House Speaker Pro Tem when the GOP gained the majority. At a press conferene wouldn’t say if he was [...]
Elections Chairman “Regrets” Decision to End Perdue Investigation
More than a year after the Democrats on the State Board of Elections ended an investigation into the Governor’s campaign, the Democratic Chairman of the State Board of Elections, Larry Leake, says he regrets his vote to end the investigation. The Democrats on the Board chose not to hold a hearing or question witnesses under oath. [...]
New Coalition Formed to Support the Defense of Marriage Amendment
A group of civic and religious leaders has organized a coalition they call “Vote FOR Marriage NC.” It plans to campaign to convince voters to approve a state constitutional amendment that would define marriage as only that between one man and one woman. The question will be on the May primary ballot. The charter organizations [...]
