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North Carolina Republicans Sued For Rigging the Election For Trump

By Rmuse on Tue, Nov 1st, 2016 at 10:00 am

The voter suppression tactic is right out of the GOP [election rigging] playbook to suppress the Black vote in North Carolina.”

*The following is an opinion column by R Muse*

Some Americans are likely aware of the psychological term “projecting” that roughly means a person attributes their own faults and actions onto someone else; as an ‘unconscious’ form of transferring guilt for one’s own actions. As soon as the Republican primaries concluded, Donald Trump projected Republicans’ guilt for election rigging, either through vote obstruction or suppression, onto Democrats and his opponent Hillary Clinton. Republicans have been actively suppressing votes since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, and they have only ramped up their ‘election rigging’ activities over the past eight years; and yet Trump accuses Democrats of election rigging as frequently as most human beings draw breath.

Yesterday, the North Carolina conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a lawsuit against North Carolina Republicans and demanded they put an immediate stop to the “coordinated effort to suppress the Black vote in the state.” What the NAACP rightly said was that the voter suppression tactic was “right out of the GOP [election rigging] playbook to suppress the Black vote in the state.”

The election rigging amounts to three counties in North Carolina canceling voter registration of thousands of, mostly African American, Democratic residents a week before the presidential election. The lawsuit charged election officials in Beaufort, Moore, and Cumberland counties of denying primarily African American voters’ eligibility to participate in democracy because their voter registration documents mysteriously were “bounced back as undeliverable.”

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http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/01/north-carolina-republicans-sued-rigging-election-trump.html