Election red meat: From The Assembly
(Shutterstock image) The Assembly , North Carolina's newest online journalism outlet, was kind enough to publish my thoughts about the partisan weaponization of elections. Here's an outside-the-paywall version. I urge you subscribe to The Assembly , a rich and thoughtful place to read and think about our state. Oh, and to Deregulator.net , too! Election Red Meat Republicans and Democrats vehemently disagree about how to handle North Carolina’s elections, a fight that will only get more intense over the next two years. It’s time to find a modicum of common ground. It was a whopping 75 degrees during Denver’s ill-fated 2006 election. Then-Mayor John Hickenlooper walked along the election lines, offering voters bottles of water to Denverites stuck in hours-long lines. Luckily, this was 15 years before Twitter would argue whether we’re criminalizing election-line water handoffs. That day, the not-ready-for-primetime electronic pollbook that election officials were using started