The National Democratic Committee may sue the North Carolina Board of Elections.
The board is asking some 100,000 people to supply identifying information currently missing from voter registration records. Part of the motive is to settle a lawsuit by the Justice Department.
Many of the 100,000 registrants may well have a perfect right to vote but may have omitted necessary information when registering simply because of an unclear registration form. The Associated Press notes that the lack of ID info has “muddled election administration and voter eligibility in North Carolina for over a year.”
Registrants who, despite reminders, fail to update their registration by going to a DMV website, visiting an election board office, or submitting the information in postage-paid envelopes in time for the next election will have to submit provisional ballots when they vote.
These provisional votes may not be counted if the requested information is never provided or proves inaccurate.
The DNC is threatening to sue, calling the North Carolina effort the product of “collusion” between the state and federal government to violate the voting rights of the 100,000. The Committee seems to regard it as self-evident that none of the 100,000 can provide the missing information.
There are two kinds of disenfranchisement. One is disenfranchisement of persons who have the right to vote. The other is “disenfranchisement” of persons who don’t, perhaps because they are not citizens.
Determining which is which must be done by some means or other. And can be. Quite reasonably.
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The Democrats have wed themselves to a narrative that, on this point (as with many others) alienates voters who do not feel an allegiance to the Republicans. If the Democrats are ever to retake power, they have to get the votes of such people. They may get them by virtue of the Republicans once again pursuing some disastrous course,* but the Republicans get more slack from voters when the Democrats fight policies that most non-aligned voters want.
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*Tariffs as idiotic Fed policy might be just that disasterous course; so might interventionist military policy.