Category Archives: ELECTIONS

NC Voter Registration Update

Posted on September 29, 2012 by A.P. Dillon

I previously reported on voter registration activities in NC on September 4th. Every single weekend, I see voter registrations on corners and at grocery stores in my area identical to this one.

At the time of my earlier post on 9/2, the number of registered voters listed on the NC BOE site was: 6,296,961.

As of this post on 9/29 (total date is on the site says 9/29 as well), the number of registered voters is: 6,471,031.

A net gain of 174,070. Right?

I took some screen shots for the last article of the BOE banner and did the same this time for comparison: Screen shot of 9/2 and screen shot of 9/29.

Breakdown according to the 9/2 and 9/29 headers on the BOE Site (also mirrored in the image below):

Democrat on 9/2 – 2,727,202
Democrat on 9/29 – 2,785,054
Gain: 57, 852

Republican on 9/2 – 1,990,941
Republican on 9/29 -2,011,846
Gain: 20,905

Libertarian on 9/2 – 15,651
Libertarian on 9/29 – 16,805
Gain: 1,154

Unaffiliated (independent) 9/2 – 1,618,567
Unaffiliated (independent) 9/29 – 1,657,326
Gain: 38,759

I added up all the gains by registration affiliation as is listed on the BOE site and 118,670 is the total net gain I came up with. It doesn’t match the overall totals gain listed on the BOE site. I went back and checked the math. The 9/2 banner total registrations number was off. The total should have added up to 6,352,361. It’s short by 55,400.

There is no way of knowing if the new total being run on 9/29 incorporates that 55,400 or if it is accurate now. Perhaps this is a math or data entry oversight by those running the BOE site that is the cause for the gap on 9/2. In the meantime I am contacting the BOE for clarification, because their downloadable reports give some different numbers as well. The BOE has a revised registered voter report by precinct as of September 12. This would replace the one I linked to near the bottom of my prior post.

Obviously, depending on what answers I get back from the NC BOE on the banner discrepancy, the following is subject to change:
CHART

I compared the latest hard copy report by precinct and the site banner numbers in the last two rows above. The report was on 9/12 and the banner from 9/29 — which means that, if the 9/29 numbers are accurate, nearly 54,000 people were registered to vote in NC inside of 17 days. Draw what conclusions you will from these numbers. Continue reading →

Posted in POLITICS NC, Voting | Tagged NC | 2 Comments

Charlotte Convention Motto: We Make This Possible

Posted on September 4, 2012 by A.P. Dillon

Charlotte unveiled it’s motto for the DNC – “We made this possible.”
Sounds a lot like “You didn’t build that.”
[IMAGE] Continue reading →

Posted in Campaign 2012 | 5 Comments

Forms Come In Boxes Of 1,000

Posted on July 30, 2012 by A.P. Dillon

Yesterday I posted about my adventures in voter registration at the grocery store with “completely non-partisan” voter drive groups. In case you missed it, here’s the video I shot:

(VIDEO)

This turn of events left me wondering just how some random group or person can set up a folding card table at a grocery store and register people to vote. So I hit the NC State Board of Elections site in search of answers. I did not like what I found. Continue reading →

Posted in Campaign 2012, POLITICS NC, Voting | Tagged NC, Voter Fraud | 4 Comments

Register to Vote and Grocery Shop. Seems Legit. (Video)

Posted on July 29, 2012 by A.P. Dillon

A funny thing happened to me today on the way by the grocery store… (Video) Continue reading →

Posted in Campaign 2012 | Tagged NC, Voter Fraud | 5 Comments

Voter Registration Sketchiness in VA

Posted on July 27, 2012 by A.P. Dillon

Bryan Preston of The PJ Tatler has a piece up right now that is an absolute MUST READ:
Why Is the Voter Participation Center Spoofing the Virginia State Board of Elections’ Return Address?

It’s a very detailed and involved article which lays out the law breaking and attempted voter fraud going on in Virginia right now.

“The center’s registration forms, some of which have been addressed to the dead, children, even pets and felons ineligible to vote in Virgina, state that recipients are eligible to vote. They come with some personal information already filled in, and instruct recipients to send the forms in to the Virginia State Board of Elections via Business Reply Mail to an address pre-printed on the form. But where do the returned forms really go?”

The article then proceeds to follow the forms to a PO box — not to the Board of Elections. Like I said, it is an involved article with many screenshots. You have to read the whole thing.

When I finished reading the article, I remembered a local story about the sub-group of Voter Participation Center — Women’s Voices, Womens Vote Action Fund (WVWVAF). The section in the Tatler piece about Page Gardner rang a bell. They were fined $100k for misleading robocalls with follow up mailers here in North Carolina. Continue reading →