More goodness from North Carolina (via Matt Yglesias)- Republican protesters line up to heckle folks who are lined up to vote early at a polling place.
North Carolina law, at § 163‑166.4, specifies a 25 to 50 foot buffer zone around the outside of a polling place where no electioneering activity can take place. Outside of that zone, there must be an area "where persons or groups of persons may distribute campaign literature, place political advertising, solicit votes, or otherwise engage in election‑related activity."
I wonder if the legislators drafting that section envisioned "election-related activity" to mean a big group of white people screaming at a line of black voters that their preferred candidate is a terrorist...
At what point does this cross the line into legitimate voter intimidation? Also, anybody want to take the over/under on how long it would take the police to bust up a large group of blacks hassling voters in a white area of North Carolina?
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