To: The North Carolina State House, The North Carolina State Senate, and Governor Roy Cooper
Stop the Worst Voter Suppression Bill in the Nation from Passing in North Carolina
I’m calling on you to oppose HB 589. This bill is a direct assault on the voting rights of all North Carolinians. It would cut early voting hours, impose strict voter ID requirements, make it easier for voter suppression groups to intimidate voters and even increase the influence of big money in elections. We should be strengthening the right to vote, not diminishing it. Please vote NO on HB 589.
Why is this important?
Right-wing legislators in North Carolina have outdone themselves again. They’ve passed bills to restrict women’s health care rights, cut benefits drastically for unemployed workers and reject expanding health care for low-income families.
Now, they’re taking advantage of the Supreme Court’s ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act and are trying to ram through the most restrictive voter suppression bill in the United States—HB 589.
This bill would devastate voter rights for North Carolinians. It would shorten early voting periods, impose restrictive voter ID requirements, eliminate same-day voter registration, purge voter rolls more often and prevent counties from extending poll hours in the case of long lines.
But it doesn’t stop there. It also would raise political contribution limits, reduce the amount of information donors from out of state are required to provide and make it easier for voter suppression groups, like True the Vote, to intimidate and challenge voters at the polls.
This bill would be a disaster for North Carolina. Tell your lawmakers to oppose it.