But don't expect Republican voter suppression tactics to change much:
Eggers served on the board since the summer of 2013. His first meeting as a local board of elections member featured boos and chants from citizens concerned about voting measures the GOP-majority board adopted. In his resignation letter, Eggers spoke proudly of his time as a board member.
Watauga County Board of Elections Director Matt Snyder said that Anne Marie Yates, chair of the Watauga County GOP, will submit a couple of names for the State Board of Elections to consider as Eggers successor.
Revealing the most absurd political reality in the state of NC. The party in power is also the party in charge of regulating all elections, in every single county in the state. They have the power (and have used it unashamedly) to make voting more difficult for their opponents, and there is no statutory remedy for this jaw-dropping assault on Democracy. When this very thing occurs in South America, Africa, Asia, we shake our heads in consternation over the unfairness and lack of integrity. But when it happens here? "Elections have consequences," or some other self-aggrandizing rationalization.
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