Sunday voting, additional early voting sites and hours restored in some counties despite GOP ...

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Sunday voting, additional early voting sites and hours restored in some counties despite GOP opposition

RALEIGH -- Noting the watchful eye of a federal court, the State Board of Elections voted to restore Sunday early voting hours in several counties that had offered the option – popular among African-American voters – in 2012.

The board also voted to add early voting hours in counties where schedules had been cut. But in party line votes, the board’s Republican majority rejected efforts to add Sunday voting in counties that hadn’t previously offered it.

Some of the decisions put members of the board’s Republican majority at odds with their party’s leaders, who had lobbied extensively for fewer early voting opportunities and the elimination of Sunday voting. The board was charged with settling disputed early voting schedules in 33 counties where the local board vote wasn’t unanimous.

“Almost all the plans before us have added hours, and I think that’s a good thing,” said Rhonda Amoroso, a Republican board member from Wilmington. “Everybody wants an opportunity to vote.”

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article100772547.html

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1. That statement......

“Almost all the plans before us have added hours, and I think that’s a good thing,” said Rhonda Amoroso, a Republican board member from Wilmington. “Everybody wants an opportunity to vote.”

may get her thrown out of the GOPee.