Election law bill pulled from committee agenda, drawing cheers and questions over its future

[RandySF]

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A House committee's unexpected decision to pull House Bill 958 from its Monday afternoon agenda prompted audible gasps, cheers, and renewed debate about the sweeping elections bill.

Moments after the House Committee on Rules, Calendar and Operations gaveled in, the chair announced the measure would not be heard. The move drew applause from opponents who have spent more than a year urging lawmakers to slow or stop the proposal.

There's some very nefarious elements in the bill to give it that further politicize the elections board and give the elections board cheap cheese, all kinds of political power, or more threatening firing and firing power over the staff," said Mac McCorkle, of the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy. "That's kind of unprecedented. So there is real reason to protest this. I'm just saying, besides that, it's a mess."

Karen Ziegler of Durham, who attended the meeting, said the decision energized those fighting the bill.



https://abc11.com/post/election-law-bill-pulled-committee-agenda-drawing-cheers-questions-future/19311438/

[littlemissmartypants]

1. The power of protest. I guess all the folks repeatedly...

Saying the word "shame" in the lobby made a difference. Special thanks to all who showed up for those of us who couldn't be there.

Now, let's see if they leave it alone or if the Republicans try one of their sneaky reintroduce the bill with a change in name under the cover of darkness underhanded tactics that they have used in the past.

We seemingly have the most dysfunctional general assembly in the nation.

Their time's coming.