Op-Ed in the News and Observer has an analysis of the state of Democracy in North Carolina using measures used to evaluate various countries around the world.
Our system measured 50 moving parts of an election process and covered everything from the legal framework to the polling day and counting of ballots.
They have measured 213 elections using this and reported that it seems to be considered a pretty good way of evaluating elections.
In the just released EIP report, North Carolina’s overall electoral integrity score of 58/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone.
That doesn’t sound good, how did the gerrymandering hold up?
When it comes to the integrity of the voting district boundaries no country has ever received as low a score as the 7/100 North Carolina received. North Carolina is not only the worst state in the USA for unfair districting but the worst entity in the world ever analyzed by the Electoral Integrity Project.
We’re #1! We’re #1!! um oh wait...And I don’t think South Carolina is going to bail us out of last place by being worse, even with the state-sponsored ransomware law on tap for next year.
And yet our GOP thinks that the people are just fine with this state of affairs and the only possible explanation for the protests during the season of endless special sessions was paid protesters probably bused in from other states.