North Carolina Democracy rates same as Cuba

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plague311
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Pretty interesting read on how the state has been torn apart by partisan bickering, gerrymandering, etc.

Andrew Reynolds is a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has helped design a system called the Electoral Integrity Project, which evaluates the fairness of election systems globally. In a column this week in The News & Observer, the Raleigh newspaper, Professor Reynolds said the system’s “electoral integrity score” for North Carolina ranked the state alongside Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone.
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Article quotes a former Republican pulling out the tu quoque:

“We Republicans learned from the Democrats,” said Jim Martin, a former Republican governor, predicting that his party would eventually be on the receiving end of a backlash similar to the one that befell Democrats. “They’ll have accumulated the same sort of baggage, and it’ll swing back the other way.”
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That place is a mess.
 
I don't wanna click the link. Can you summarize what's wrong?
 
Beerina said:
I don't wanna click the link. Can you summarize what's wrong?
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I did, the rest can be explained in the first 4 paragraphs of the article, which I won't quote because I believe it violates forum policy.

In short, the state has been torn apart by partisan bickering, gerrymandering, etc. If you want more detail, read the article. If you can't be bothered, don't participate.
 
Given everything the GOP has done in the state over the past few years, that's about right. They've made it perfectly clear that they are willing to oppress others in order to hold onto power.
 
BobTheCoward said:
I'm going to ask that you back thst up with an explanation.
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Blatant acts of voter suppression and voter roll manipulation. Gerrymanding. Non-secure voting machines. Improper court interferance in eleciion. Unlimited campaign spending by corporations/elites. Foreign influence and manipulation. Government agencies selectively intervening or not in political matters to partisan effect. The list goes on.

North Carolina is just one of the current public examples of our utterly broken political system.


Garrison said:
Well not until after the inauguration...
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A good case can be made for it going at least as far back as 2000.
 
ChristianProgressive said:
Blatant acts of voter suppression and voter roll manipulation. Gerrymanding. Non-secure voting machines. Improper court interferance in eleciion. Unlimited campaign spending by corporations/elites. Foreign influence and manipulation. Government agencies selectively intervening or not in political matters to partisan effect. The list goes on.

North Carolina is just one of the current public examples of our utterly broken political system.




A good case can be made for it going at least as far back as 2000.
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A few of those wouldn't e similar to banana republics. I bet they didn't have hackable voting machines (many predating the internet). Also, I seriously doubt they had unlimited campaign spending by corporations.
 
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