Regular readers of this blog may
have noticed that blogging has been very light this week. There’s a good reason for my absence.
I have been working at the local
“Victory” office of North Carolina senatorial candidate Thom Tillis passing out
bumper stickers, buttons and campaign yard signs, making phone calls and
walking neighborhoods all in an effort to help him unseat incumbent Democrat
Senator Kay Hagan.
North Carolina has 100 counties,
of which 30 are blue. I live in one of
those blue counties.
On Wednesday, October 22nd, Thom
made a campaign stop at Wingate University with Congressman Paul Ryan
Noting that circumstances are
eerily similar to what the nation was facing in 1980—an energy crisis, rising
gas prices, hostages being taken in the Middle East and Russia “going anywhere
it wanted to go”—Tillis said that “Reagan created a vision of optimism and the
emergence of America being great again.”
He said he is running because the
students are owed the same opportunity to believe in America and the American
Dream.
At one point Tillis referred to
the debate on Tuesday night that Hagan did not participate in. The “debate” featured an empty chair next to
him. Tillis said, “In fairness, I think
it was her best performance yet.”
Early voting begins today in my
state and I have been selected as a poll watcher. Judicial Watch discovered
a scheme by Rev. Dr. William Barber to urge those attending the 71st Annual
North Carolina NAACP Conference to “take unregistered voters to vote during the
Early Voting period and to engage in get-out-the-vote activities on Election
Day.”
NAACP’s leaders
appear willing to risk the confusion and disenfranchisement of their own
members in order to deceive a Court about common sense election integrity laws.
If the underhandedness of the
North Carolina NAACP were not enough to cause alarm, The
Winston-Salem Journal is reporting that 145 potential illegal voters
appear on the State Board of Elections voting rolls. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
beneficiaries can obtain drivers licenses but are not legally permitted to
vote. SBOE believe more ineligible
people may still remain on the voting rolls.
Jay DeLancy, Executive Director
of the Voter Integrity Project wants to know how such a large number of
non-U.S. citizens were ever registered to vote in the first place.” Speaking to Watchdog. org DeLancy said, “There is clearly a system failure here and we need the Board of
Elections and the DMV to help the Legislature and the public understand where
the problem lies.”
My job as poll watcher will be to
challenge any voter believed to be not qualified to vote in that precinct. Judges will determine whether or not the
challenge is valid.
