How to Vote in NC? Move to Another State

North Carolina didn't waste any time after the Supreme Court reached its "go forth and be racist" verdict. BuzzFeed compiled a nice little list regarding just how sticky it's going next time you try to vote in the Tarheel State.

Despite the fact that there were only 127 alleged cases of voter fraud in North Carolina's general election in 2012, conservatives in the state continue to rally behind the false notion that voting twice is swaying their state gay.

And regardless of that absurdity, most of their new restrictions have nothing to do with voter fraud and everything to do with making voting and voter registration less available.

Take a look:

The early voting period will be shortened by a week.
Why? Just, why?

Same day registration during the early voting period will be eliminated.
See above.

Straight party voting will be eliminated.
Please make sure you push EVERY BUTTON.

Party chairpersons will designate up to twelve poll "observers" to monitor polling stations.
In other words, security will be assigned to profile voters. "Move along, you're taking too long."

16 and 17 year olds will not be allowed to pre-register.
Since younger people are less likely to vote, most register as part of a class assignment. Since younger voters tend to be more liberal, Republicans can sleep well knowing that 18 year old high school grads probably aren't registered, and won't find their way to the voting booth.

College and local government IDs will no longer be accepted.
College students and government employees tend to be more liberal. See above.

Out of precinct voting will be eliminated.
Just to make it a little harder to get there.

Satellite locations will be restricted.
Again, just to make it harder.

Paid voter registration drives will be banned.
I'm pretty sure this is unconstitutional.

Counties will not be able to extend voting hours do to long lines or any extenuating circumstances.
So pretty much anyone who doesn't work 9-5 or can't take an extra break to vote, can't.

MSNBC Raking Their Own Muck

MSNBC news correspondents are organizing against an upcoming Hillary Clinton miniseries planned by NBC. It's not entirely clear why they consider the miniseries a bad idea, but there are certainly reasons the reaction can be in some way justified.

On one hand, NBC's liberal reputation timed with an upcoming Presidential election along with unsupported claims that Hillary has eyes on the ticket looks a little like propaganda. On another hand, there is a huge firewall between MSNBC and NBC, one largely ignored by those who tune in to either. And (let me find a third hand), the RNC has already claimed they'd boycott any MSNBC debate unless NBC agrees to pull the miniseries, obviously lumping them in with the camp that don't see the firewall.

With Chuck Todd giving the media the bird, joining Andrea Mitchell and (the somehow journalistically qualified) Alec Baldwin in the fight against their employers, MSNBC reporters are turning themselves into the story, breaking the cardinal rule of journalism: report the news, don't make it.

Well, cry me a river, Chuck and Andrea.

This is one of the demons that comes with a conglomerate’s privilege of owning absolutely everything, right down to the viewers’ opinions. If you want to work absent of corporate conflicts of interest, write a blog. Considering everything owned by the Legion that runs NBC and MSNBC, it's a wonder that they're ever allowed to report on anything. Then again, if you actually listen to what most of the network's reporters say, they don't.

I’d be a little more sympathetic if MSNBC wasn’t a member of the trifecta of self indulgent media outlets that forces me to turn to BuzzFeed and Cracked.com for news.  

I love Hillary and I’m a raging liberal, but I’m sick of pious pundits smugly lecturing each other in Beltwayease, telling us what we already know, and preaching to the choir just to sell ad space. Pulling in an actor employed by NBC not only enforces the absent firewall between the two networks, but also proves that MSNBC's journalists are only slightly more credible than a cast member from the Jersey Shore.  

Remember what happened to TLC and the Discovery Channel? MSNBC is a few short years away with what is already scripted reality. They're providing us entertainment, not news, and it’s only a matter of time before most people wise up and realize the Jurassic Journalism raked by the major media networks is about to be as dead as the newspaper.

If the RNC's boycott of MSNBC wasn't justified by some silly miniseries, they've got a good reason now:

MSNBC calls this integrity?