The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is suing the state of North Carolina after the state engaged in what the NAACP described as “a coordinated effort right out of the GOP playbook to suppress the Black vote in the state.”
Three counties — Beaufort, Moore and Cumberland — sent pieces of mail to registered voters. If the mail came back undelivered or the person did not show up to a hearing to fight for their eligibility to vote, their registration was purged. Essentially, people — disproportionately Blacks, who tend to be Democratic voters — are having their right to vote challenged over a lost piece of mail.
On Wednesday evening, in an emergency hearing over the lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs said the process sounds “insane.”
