After signing the nation’s most restrictive voter ID bill into law Monday, North Carolina’s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory took to YouTube to decry the left’s “scare tactics” and defend the law, saying it was aimed at “ensuring nobody’s vote is disenfranchised by a fraudulent ballot.”
msnbc host Alex Wagner had some fun with that jaw-dropping case of Orwellian double-speak in that, actually, the people being disenfranchised will be the estimated 318,000 people who lack a photo ID–mainly minorities, poor and young voters–unable to vote as a direct result of McCrory’s new law.
As for the voter fraud that McCrory says he is protecting North Carolinians from? It’s non-existent–or to be precise, accounted for 0.00174% of all ballots cast in the state in 2012.
“How courageous of the governor to take to YouTube to talk about this rather than hold a press conference because you wouldn’t want anybody asking about it,” the Grio’s Joy Reid said. “Governors like McCrory are passing all these draconian pieces of legislation and then they are passing the pieces of legislation that prevent voters from punishing them.”
The New York Times’ Frank Bruni agreed.








