Monday, November 7, 2016

Black Turnout Down in North Carolina After Cuts to Early Voting

A federal court found in August that Republicans in North Carolina intentionally sought to make voting more difficult for African-Americans. Now, with early voting wrapped up, a decline in black turnout suggests that they succeeded.

Beyond the work of the organized GOP, there's concern that intimidating on-the-ground tactics from Trump supporters may also be keeping minorities from the polls. 

African-American turnout in the Tar Heel state through Saturday declined this year compared to 2012 by 8.7 percent, or around 66,000 votes — going from just under 754,000 votes to just over 688,000. That's according to numbers released by Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida and a leading expert on voting rates.

"Something went very wrong for African-Americans' voting in North Carolina," tweeted McDonald Sunday. 

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