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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