Persons who signed the 2022 Green Party petition in North Carolina are getting multiple text messages and phone calls from persons working for the Democratic Party. The party submitted 22,000 signatures and when the counties checked them, they were told 16,000 are valid. The requirement is 10,000. The Democratic operation seeks to induce signers to withdraw their signatures.
The Green Party is unable to get more signatures during this period, and is furthermore forbidden by law from putting the names and addresses of signers in its database. Yet, the State Board of Elections has apparently furnished the list to the Democratic Party group.
One text says, “If the Green Party is on the ballot in 2022 and 2024, it will take votes away from the Democrats, giving Republicans a huge advantage that will help them win North Carolina in 2022 and 2024.”
Another text says, “Your name was listed on a petition to put the Green Party on the ballot. We just wanted to confirm whether you signed it or not.” It then lists choices, each with a checkbox, “Yes, I did sign”; “No, I did not sign”; “Not Sure”; “Wrong Number.”
Some of the phone calls claim the Green Party itself is calling.
Nothing in the North Carolina election law authorizes withdrawal of signatures from any type of petition, either before or after signing. The State Board of Elections will decide on July 1 whether to put the Green Party on the ballot.
It ought to be illegal, if it is not already, for people to take their names off of a petition they signed, UNLESS they can PROVE beyond a reasonable doubt that they were duped into signing via fraud, and the burden of proof for this ought to be pretty high.
Why don’t the Democrats in North Carolina introduce a Ranked Choice Voting bill? Could it be because they are corrupt and power hungry?
Two commie parties on the ballot mean vote splitting so a patriot party will win. Fine by me.
Any word on the petitions in New York?
All the gubernatorial petitions are void. None of them had as many as 45,000 raw signatures.
I follow North Carolina voter registration statistics closely. Their board of elections makes it easy, as they publish numbers weekly. Based on what I’m seeing, the number of registered Democrats in North Carolina is ready dropping. The Democrats don’t need the Greens to drive people away from the Democrat party. The current Democrat party is already doing a good job doing that.
How DEAD are Greens in commie donkey control states ???
How DEAD are LPs in fascist elephant control states ???
“Richard Winger on June 27, 2022 at 11:27 am said:
All the gubernatorial petitions are void. None of them had as many as 45,000 raw signatures.”
Wow. Some Libertarians in New York claimed that they had over 50,000 signatures on the Larry Shapre petition. 50,000 and something signatures probably would not have been enough to survive a validity challenge, but are you saying that this was false, in that they did not even have 45,000 raw signatures?
Yes, this was all in the briefs in the Second Circuit that I linked to a few days ago.
TomP – Republicans and Democrats typically shed voter registrations in all but Presidential years. Democrats lost 837,000 between 2016 and 2018, but then added 2,777,000 between 2018 and 2020.
Voter suppression assumes many forms. And each major party has its own varieties.
Dims are desperate. They know that they are going down in flames in November and in 2024 and beyond.