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Legislative leaders rebut arguments from felon voting advocates

State legislative leaders argue in a new brief that the N.C. Supreme Court should reverse prior court rulings granting voting rights to felons. The brief says a lawsuit supporting felon voting aimed its objections at the wrong target. The case could determine whether as many as 56,000 felons can vote in N.C. elections.

CJ Staff
Opinion

NAACP wants felons to vote, while nullifying your ballot

The NAACP is backing an effort to add more than 50,000 felons to North Carolina’s voting rolls. At the same time, they are trying to nullifying 9.6 million votes from law-abiding citizens. Even worse: The group won’t stop with a current lawsuit at the state Supreme Court involving felons who have completed their active prison...

Dallas Woodhouse
Opinion

Journalism Shouldn’t Undermine Democracy

The role of journalism in a democratic society is to inform the public to make sound decisions and, thereby, lead to the preservation of democracy. By inference, then, journalism’s role should include exposing those who try to destroy the legitimacy of institutions in that society. In this latter role they have recently failed.

Jon Ham

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