NORTH CAROLINA: State GOP Issues Press Release Bragging About Success In Suppressing Minority Vote

“African American Early Voting is down 8.5% from this time in 2012.” Via Daily Kos:

This morning, the NC GOP sent out a press release bragging about how successful the state party has been in suppressing the vote. As a reminder, the state “surgically” slashed the early voting methods used by most often by African Americans — including eliminating “Souls to the Polls Sunday” and radically reducing the number of early voting locations.

North Carolina GOP eliminated Sunday voting because “counties with Sunday voting were disproportionately black and Democratic” pic.twitter.com/G55KWY9EKD

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 6, 2016

This @NCGOP press release on early voting statistics highlights decrease in African-Americans voting. #ncpol pic.twitter.com/wzlegECMVX — Colin Campbell (@RaleighReporter) November 7, 2016