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🚨BREAKING: Thousands of North Carolina midterm ballots are set to be rejected over minor technical issues after a federal court upheld strict new Republican-backed rules for mail voters, according to data shared exclusively with Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comExclusive: Thousands of North Carolina ballots set to be rejected after GOP imposed strict new rules, data showsIf 3% of mail ballots statewide end up being rejected, it would lead to an estimated 3,942 ballots being thrown out, Democracy Docket calculated. Those voters would be disenfranchised unless they come...

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What’s the secret? From seating Supreme Court justices to stealing presidential elections and now making up who can vote, republicans always get away with breaking the law

Let’s hope the assumption that only democrats vote by mail bites them in the ass in the same way redistricting might.

I'm sure we'll be seeing more examples of the voter suppression laws and policies that the GOP has put in place. I hope nonprofits step up to assist with curing ballots and that the margin of victory for Democrats can overcome this blatant cheating.

If there's anything to offer rides to vote, help voting, etc, I haven't gotten any texts or mailers about it in NC. I got one asking if I "planned when and where I'd vote". It didn't mention any help, lol. So a fail if that was their intention. People here wonder why you're asking.

Ah, the classic "technicality" strategy. We’ve reached the peak of civic engineering: designing a system where the primary qualification for voting is an advanced degree in bureaucracy.

Our democratic system is hanging by a thread. Our opponents are so consumed with hate and greed they now no longer believe in the American system of government if there is any chance they may lose.

We need all Democrats to vote in person whether early or on the day of. Trump will destroy the mail-in ballots, slow the postal system - figure out ways for them to not count. Spread the word.

I took my mail in ballot and dropped it in a secure ballot box that goes directly to our supervisor of elections who has held that office for 36 years I trust her not the Post office

In NC they do things like say the signature doesn't match (for Dems) and reject it. I'm sure that's what they are doing here. And who signs exactly the same way twice? You can always say a signature doesn't match if you want to.

Nobody had to steal a ballot box. Just reject thousands of legal ballots over "minor technical issues." Voter suppression in a suit and tie, carrying a rulebook.

They are legally allowed to come back to cure them, if they even know that their ballot has been rejected. Unfortunately this is something few voters end up doing.

Good old-fashioned cheating going on in NC. So this is ok with SCOTUS? Time to oust every single Republican, and then we can finally impeach the SCOTUS members who were TRAITORS TO OUR CONSTITUTION!

"In Guilford County, upwards of 2% of all ballots received over the past three weeks have been thrown out solely because voters violated one of the new GOP-backed rules by failing to properly seal the inner envelope of their ballot, according to figures shared with Democracy Docket.

I can't even vote them out because they gerrymandered my district again. My vote for state (and House) representation is completely diluted by a bunch of far-away rural counties they added to my district. Same everywhere in NC. So we have a Dem governor and horrible GOP supermajority legislature.

"The figure is 2.5% for both Wake County, as an election board member wrote online, and for Durham County, according to data from Common Cause NC."

If you’re a fucking citizen you are entitled to vote and it is the government’s job to ensure whatever accommodations are available need to be employed. This bullshit of complicating voting to discount and discourage it is dictator level fuckery. Welcome to the new USSR.

"Those voters would be disenfranchised unless they come back to cure them — something few voters end up doing." I don't know if there are organizations involved.

voted in person today, after they check you in, you take your form with a number to the next table to get your ballot, that’s supposed to match your number, the lady doing this job was mixing up ballots, numbers and giving them to the wrong people, what a mess, check your numbers!! This made me mad

That’s why I did mail in ballots years back and the machines didn’t trust them No one actually counted the paper against the numbers to see if it was accurate But now I don’t mail it back I go to a secure drop box because the post Office can’t be trusted either JFC 🤬

And this is how Republicans win. However, I think the NC GOP senate candidate, Wheatley, is unpopular, so Cooper will probably still win. There are other races, though, where the could make a difference.

The corrupt NCGOP is big mad that these elections will reflect the real, trending blue #NorthCarolina. Their little partisan games don’t work outside of their racist good ‘ole boy state bubble. They can’t control it.

NC is a purple state that unfortunately allowed a right wing takeover of its districts, legislature and state Supreme Court. The voters were not paying attending. Now they need to start with the Cooper Senate seat and slowly gain back what they lost. It will take focus and strategy.

Is there a systematic effort to notify people whose ballots need curing other than "of course they themselves could go through whichever process is used to look up this information"?

From the posts I read They gotta go online Supervisor of Elections and check their ballots to see if it was counted or rejected If you know disabled or elderly people And can help them check the status and correct it or get them to a location and get a provisional ballot You a rock star ⭐️

Right at the end of first article - Judge Schroeder's ruling included "to ensure their ballots are counted if they follow the cure process or if a non-curable deficiency is found in time." Yes, if a ballot has a problem, they are notified. The "found in time" made this a bit eye-raising for me.

Don't just tell people to vote, don't just say vote blue no matter who, we have to keep calling out the ways votes have been suppressed. Because that's more of a threat to democracy than voters not turning out. And democrats elected officials don't call this out enough IMO.

People need to man the fucc up and vote in person. Mail in ballots are not safe and will be under attack in all states.

Crazy how a Voter 80 plus years or a disabled person didn’t seal an inside BS envelope could get their vote tossed out and who is there to help people alone with no help to Navigate this BS 🤬🤬🤬

"Those voters would be disenfranchised unless they come back to cure them — something few voters end up doing." 🤞 they are all of the "poorly educated MAGAt" voters in these Dem stronghold counties.

That, is exactly why, my wife and myself will be going to the early voting pole, location, and voting early there to stop this fucking role, uneducated, white trash racist motherfuckers in the state legislature from fucking around with our ballots.

Yes, but as the article says, relatively few voters cure a rejected ballot. Whether it's because they're unaware it wasn't accepted, don't know how, or don't bother isn't clear.

In the past I've been able to check online to confirm my ballot was received and counted. Everyone that votes by mail should see if that is available. Don't let the rat-f*ckers steal your vote!