I am going to hazard a guess that older white voters will be impacted the most by the disruption caused by the disaster of Helene.
The reason is simple: with age one’s energy and initiative gradually are taken away. Often these are soaked up by dealing with the physical aches and pains of aging and by grief for what has been lost during the span of one’s life.
Such persons will be less likely to muster the drive to vote.
The mountains also tend to have fewer brown skinned citizens than the Piedmont and coastal areas, where the large tobacco and cotton plantations were, historically. Extended families there are still intact among African Americans and are a strong safety net in such times. These groups are also strongly Democratic voters.
Meanwhile, older whites are Trump’s key demographic.
So my best guess is that Trump will be hurt more by the hurricanes in every state where they caused serious damage. This will be due to the effects of aging in an environment of struggle and without a social safety net to help them muster the energy to vote.
Lots of legalese and IANAL, but I think this says that anyone in affected counties who has relocated can request an absentee ballot (even if they had already had requested one) and they can return it to any NC county Board of Elections and that county BoE will take responsibility for getting it back to the correct BOE's staff. In this case the deadline is still 5pm election day for getting it to a BOE, but that BOE has until canvass time to get it to the right county.
The BoE are also trying to set up early voting in adjacent counties if one counties facilities are untenable.
I am going to hazard a guess that older white voters will be impacted the most by the disruption caused by the disaster of Helene.
The reason is simple: with age one’s energy and initiative gradually are taken away. Often these are soaked up by dealing with the physical aches and pains of aging and by grief for what has been lost during the span of one’s life.
Such persons will be less likely to muster the drive to vote.
The mountains also tend to have fewer brown skinned citizens than the Piedmont and coastal areas, where the large tobacco and cotton plantations were, historically. Extended families there are still intact among African Americans and are a strong safety net in such times. These groups are also strongly Democratic voters.
Meanwhile, older whites are Trump’s key demographic.
So my best guess is that Trump will be hurt more by the hurricanes in every state where they caused serious damage. This will be due to the effects of aging in an environment of struggle and without a social safety net to help them muster the energy to vote.
Based on the title of this article, I was hoping you would cover the actions of the NCSBE to make voting easier for those effected by Helene.
See https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/State_Board_Meeting_Docs/2024-10-07/20241007%20Emergency%20Resolution%20for%2013%20WNC%20Counties_Final_Signed.pdf
Lots of legalese and IANAL, but I think this says that anyone in affected counties who has relocated can request an absentee ballot (even if they had already had requested one) and they can return it to any NC county Board of Elections and that county BoE will take responsibility for getting it back to the correct BOE's staff. In this case the deadline is still 5pm election day for getting it to a BOE, but that BOE has until canvass time to get it to the right county.
The BoE are also trying to set up early voting in adjacent counties if one counties facilities are untenable.
I posted this on my personal Facebook page and they removed it as spam. Censorship at its finest.