{"id":141340,"date":"2025-01-17T03:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141340"},"modified":"2025-01-17T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:47:07","slug":"republicans-in-north-carolina-are-treading-a-terrifying-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141340","title":{"rendered":"“Republicans in North Carolina Are Treading a Terrifying Path”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NY Times<\/a>: “Nothing should be shocking after Jan. 6, 2021, when an American president\u2019s scheming to overturn the legitimate results of a fair election culminated in the bloody breaching of the Capitol. Still, I\u2019m aghast at the audacity of what Republicans here in North Carolina are up to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are following in their leader\u2019s footsteps and\u00a0trying to steal an election<\/a>. And if such an effort no longer seems as strange and sinister as it did before Donald Trump stormed onto the political scene and took a torch to whatever scruples still existed, that\u2019s all the more reason to examine it closely. We need to be clear about where things stand. With an election denier about to move back into the White House and his disciples emboldened, our democracy is in danger. That\u2019s the moral of the North Carolina story.\u00a0It\u2019s much, much bigger than this state<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nature of his complaint is especially insidious<\/a>. Griffin and the North Carolina Republican Party, which supports him, aren\u2019t producing evidence of voter fraud or a botched count. They\u2019re disputing the legitimacy of more than 60,000 ballots, principally because the registration forms of many of the voters who cast them lack either a driver\u2019s license or Social Security number, as law requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean the voters did anything wrong. Some of them may have registered before that information became mandatory in 2004. Long after that point, North Carolina routinely accepted registration forms without it. It\u2019s also possible that voters provided it but that it\u2019s not present in the state database because of administrative error or faulty record keeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line is that most or all of these voters had no reason to believe there was any issue with their status or their ballots, and they aren\u2019t being accused of malfeasance. They\u2019re just pawns in Republicans\u2019 last-ditch bid to reverse Griffin\u2019s defeat however possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NY Times: “Nothing should be shocking after Jan. 6, 2021, when an American president\u2019s scheming to overturn the legitimate results of a fair election culminated in the bloody breaching of the Capitol. Still, I\u2019m aghast at the audacity of what Republicans here in North Carolina are up to. They are following in their leader\u2019s footsteps…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141341,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141340\/revisions\/141341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}