Whoops. Some alert voter pointed something out to me during early voting, close to the end, and I didn’t get it. More below.
Meanwhile, if you are canvassing or phone calling in or into NC (tight races for Prez and Senate and chance to flip Senate and Governor)… And everything I’m writing here applies if you are voting on election day, volunteering on election day, outside the polls, driving and all etc.
Make sure voters know: WE NO LONGER HAVE STRAIGHT TICKET VOTING. They will have to mark all the way down the ballot.
But there’s a key race on there that is not marked with party ID, the first one under the heading of “Nonpartisan Offices” [ha ha] for NC Supreme Court: Urge them to vote for Mike Morgan.
Tell them they can look for Dem party volunteers outside the polls for “blue ballots” but I’m sure that many counties won’t have anyone doing that at their precinct. So ask them to write down Mike Morgan as a reminder (or whatever). (“Michael Morgan like Michael Jordan”).
OK here is what is really bad and what this voter was trying to point out to me that I didn’t get (our NC GOP is so sneaky but smart):
In the “Partisan Offices” starting on the front of the ballot, the Republican candidate is listed first, then the Democratic Candidate, then Libertarian or Unaffiliated or whatever.
Then under Non-Partisan races, the NC Supreme Court race has no party ID for candidates, but under that the GOP controlled General Assembly decided to add party ID to the NC Court of Appeals Races, and uses the same party as on the front.
So, you’d think.. but wrong. In the Supreme Court race it’s the Democratic candidate (self-identified and endorsed) that is listed first, and the GOP incumbent who is listed second. And they are in reverse alphabetical order, so how the hell did this happen??
This is especially annoying/disturbing, you name it, since this one seat if we won could tip the NC Supreme Court from 5-4 repugs to 5-4 dems and besides I’m not the only one who wants the incumbent out on his ear. So if he wins it’s because absentee voters and all voters who didn’t get advised otherwise thought they were voting for their guy.
And please no comments about how judicial races should be non-partisan, that ship sailed over the horizon so long ago.
I’d like people to get the word out, so if you rec by any chance I’ll take it that you are helping with that. Since this is a statewide race I assume this is the same all over but I only have one other county downloaded to check, and yup it’s the same.
Monday, Nov 7, 2016 · 11:19:37 PM +00:00
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swizzle
This is just to clarify and simplify: the NC ballot flips the candidate/party order in one important race in which no party for the candidate is listed, so that it is opposite the order that is shown in races right before and after that race. I was in a hurry and I don’t think I stated that clearly enough, but maybe I did.