School Me Saturday 2/21/26- Early voting on campus? Not so fast

In a stunning self own, the state of North Carolina election board eliminated voting sites on campus.

It is as if they are running scared.

The three sites that were eliminated are University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina A&T, and Western Carolina University (WCU).

NC A&T is one of the biggest HBCUs in the state.

Of course, a Board of Elections member said that this move was not done to suppress the vote, but to save money. Thousands of dollars in fact.

Le gasp.

Hands up if you believe him. I thought so.

Last week, on the first day of early voting in North Carolina students marched in protest from their campus at NC A&T to the nearest voting place. They sang and chanted and voted.

In a tone deaf statement, a different voting member of the board of elections said that the next nearest voting place is only 1 mile away and that “if you really want to vote, you’ll find a way to go one mile”. This same member kind of mocked on of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. He said although this plaintiff doesn’t have a car, the plaintiff is all over the place on social media. Gross.

How tone deaf and blind to the challenges that other people might have in going that mile? There are babysitters to consider, there are jobs and job hours to consider. There are physical limitations that people don’t know about. There are many, many reasons that “one mile” is hard to get across.

Just ask the German people in the East Berlin and the West Berlin.

One vote delayed and denied is too many. No matter what the vastly gerrymandered North Carolina legislature and the board of elections has to say.

They are definitely running scared.