One year ago this week, the NC State Board of Elections made a deal that forced nearly 100,000 registered voters to re-prove their eligibility to ensure their ballots are counted, despite those voters having done nothing wrong when registering. The settlement followed a drawn-out legal challenge to State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs’ election.
There are still over 60K voters on this Registration Repair list. Please check to see if you are on the list using the search tool (link below). The Board of Elections mailed out letters, but many people discarded the letter since so much spam masquerades as "official" mail.
The search tool can be found here: https://dl.ncsbe.gov/RegistrationRepair/index.html. The list can be filtered by county and is searchable by name, so you can easily check to see if you, your family members or friends are on the list.
If you are on the list, there are three options to fix your registration:
➡️By mail: if you received a letter in the mail from your County Board of Elections fill it out and send it back in; find your County BoE using this lookup tool (https://vt.ncsbe.gov/BOEInfo/)
➡️In person: by going to your County Board of Elections office
"Michael Whatley vowed "we will never forget" in a social media post that included an image of the 9/11 memorial in New York City and an eyebrow-raising date: Sept. 1, 2001
"We remember the lives taken, the first responders who rushed into danger, and a nation that came together in the face of tragedy," Whatley posted. "God bless America."
Whatley appears to have deleted the post and reposted the same image and statements – along with the correct date – but the earlier post was captured by journalist Aaron Rupar and circulated on X.
"Bang up work from the @WhatleyNC campaign!" Rupar posted to his followers.
Social media users shamed Whatley, who's trailing Democrat Roy Cooper by 11 points in recent polling.
"He forgot," replied popular X user Nichole Remmert.
"Michael Whatley just commemorated 9/11 by getting the date wrong," marveled the American Bridge 21st Century account.
Well said. The Bush Administration was ultimately not up to the task post-9/11. In addition to lying to us about Iraq, the other ‘inspirational’ message from the White House was it was patriotic to shop. He threw a great ceremonial first pitch at that year’s World Series but that was President Bush’s high water mark.
I wrote something very similar to this earlier today. For one, brief swinging moment we had the chance to turn this tragedy into a force for good. We had the goodwill of very nearly the entire *world*, and more importantly we were as united as I have ever seen. And when I think about what *could* have come from that, it’s infuriating.
But what we got was a government that was in the pocket of big business turning the tragedy of 9/11 into a commodity. The national provide and unity got turned into a line of merch with bold, jingoistic slogans and lots of star spangled bullshit. Or national mourning became a line o f t-shirts and buy her stickers, and if you objected, then you were unpatriotic. And everything became justifiable if you could cover it with an invocation of 9/11. That is the part I find unforgivable. Because that was the seed of the invasion of Afghanistan (because that ALWAYS works out well, right?). The addition of Iraq was just a matter of political expediency that’s STILL being used — and not just by our politicians, but others who learned from it.
Axios Raleigh had a piece this morning about a professor at Chapel Hill who’s started a new class called “9/11 in World History”. Because most undergrads today only know 9/11 as an historical event — not as lived experience. Somehow that seems impossible. But I’m old.
We were united after 9/11. We went to Iraq. The war grew long. The dead came home. People stopped believing. The unity faded. Hope faded with it. What remained was disillusionment. It feels familiar now, but the path was shorter. The country was already divided. I do not believe a war with Iran will bring it together.
Yes, we certainly owe several generations a stable country as they were coming of age.
Millennials: two major recessions, mass shootings, two longest wars in American history and COVID.
Gen-Z: first truly digital natives, first use of social media plus what the Millennials went through.
Gen Alpha: heavy use of social media and AI plus what the Millennials and Gen Z went through.
Gen Beta: too early to even guess.
IMHO, even with a stable country, the future is still very uncertain because the world is changing so rapidly (e.g. climate change, population). I’d love to work on stability, but with tweens and teens I think I’m doing my best by at least helping them to be somewhat knowledgeable about tech (e.g. AI, quantum computing and virtual reality).
I welcome any suggestions about how to help “kids these days” have an easier coming of age.
Don't forget that though Christians and Jews may have felt united in sorrow, Muslims who also felt that sorrow saw it as a time when it was considered patrotic to attack and disparage American Muslims.
PSA for voters in NC.
One year ago this week, the NC State Board of Elections made a deal that forced nearly 100,000 registered voters to re-prove their eligibility to ensure their ballots are counted, despite those voters having done nothing wrong when registering. The settlement followed a drawn-out legal challenge to State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs’ election.
There are still over 60K voters on this Registration Repair list. Please check to see if you are on the list using the search tool (link below). The Board of Elections mailed out letters, but many people discarded the letter since so much spam masquerades as "official" mail.
The search tool can be found here: https://dl.ncsbe.gov/RegistrationRepair/index.html. The list can be filtered by county and is searchable by name, so you can easily check to see if you, your family members or friends are on the list.
If you are on the list, there are three options to fix your registration:
➡️Online: through the DMV (log in or continue as guest) - https://login.payitgov.com/6058b257baf5316f664f6da41cfce114/en (ignore the payment part in the webpage name; there is no charge)
➡️By mail: if you received a letter in the mail from your County Board of Elections fill it out and send it back in; find your County BoE using this lookup tool (https://vt.ncsbe.gov/BOEInfo/)
➡️In person: by going to your County Board of Elections office
From this article in Raw Story: https://www.rawstory.com/michael-whatley-north-carolina
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"Michael Whatley vowed "we will never forget" in a social media post that included an image of the 9/11 memorial in New York City and an eyebrow-raising date: Sept. 1, 2001
"We remember the lives taken, the first responders who rushed into danger, and a nation that came together in the face of tragedy," Whatley posted. "God bless America."
Whatley appears to have deleted the post and reposted the same image and statements – along with the correct date – but the earlier post was captured by journalist Aaron Rupar and circulated on X.
"Bang up work from the @WhatleyNC campaign!" Rupar posted to his followers.
Social media users shamed Whatley, who's trailing Democrat Roy Cooper by 11 points in recent polling.
"He forgot," replied popular X user Nichole Remmert.
"Michael Whatley just commemorated 9/11 by getting the date wrong," marveled the American Bridge 21st Century account.
This is a long read, but worth the time.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/helping-the-terrorists-to-win?r=9xbtu&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Well said. The Bush Administration was ultimately not up to the task post-9/11. In addition to lying to us about Iraq, the other ‘inspirational’ message from the White House was it was patriotic to shop. He threw a great ceremonial first pitch at that year’s World Series but that was President Bush’s high water mark.
I wrote something very similar to this earlier today. For one, brief swinging moment we had the chance to turn this tragedy into a force for good. We had the goodwill of very nearly the entire *world*, and more importantly we were as united as I have ever seen. And when I think about what *could* have come from that, it’s infuriating.
But what we got was a government that was in the pocket of big business turning the tragedy of 9/11 into a commodity. The national provide and unity got turned into a line of merch with bold, jingoistic slogans and lots of star spangled bullshit. Or national mourning became a line o f t-shirts and buy her stickers, and if you objected, then you were unpatriotic. And everything became justifiable if you could cover it with an invocation of 9/11. That is the part I find unforgivable. Because that was the seed of the invasion of Afghanistan (because that ALWAYS works out well, right?). The addition of Iraq was just a matter of political expediency that’s STILL being used — and not just by our politicians, but others who learned from it.
Axios Raleigh had a piece this morning about a professor at Chapel Hill who’s started a new class called “9/11 in World History”. Because most undergrads today only know 9/11 as an historical event — not as lived experience. Somehow that seems impossible. But I’m old.
We were united after 9/11. We went to Iraq. The war grew long. The dead came home. People stopped believing. The unity faded. Hope faded with it. What remained was disillusionment. It feels familiar now, but the path was shorter. The country was already divided. I do not believe a war with Iran will bring it together.
Yes, we certainly owe several generations a stable country as they were coming of age.
Millennials: two major recessions, mass shootings, two longest wars in American history and COVID.
Gen-Z: first truly digital natives, first use of social media plus what the Millennials went through.
Gen Alpha: heavy use of social media and AI plus what the Millennials and Gen Z went through.
Gen Beta: too early to even guess.
IMHO, even with a stable country, the future is still very uncertain because the world is changing so rapidly (e.g. climate change, population). I’d love to work on stability, but with tweens and teens I think I’m doing my best by at least helping them to be somewhat knowledgeable about tech (e.g. AI, quantum computing and virtual reality).
I welcome any suggestions about how to help “kids these days” have an easier coming of age.
Don't forget that though Christians and Jews may have felt united in sorrow, Muslims who also felt that sorrow saw it as a time when it was considered patrotic to attack and disparage American Muslims.
If we owe them anything, we certainly owe them that.