In a series of posts extracting information from the Washington Post article “27 Other Things the North Carolina Voting Law Changes” and other Republican reforms overturning decades of Democrats setting the rules in the Tar Heel state. All the left wing groups liked the fact that ballot order was rigged towards Democrats.  No protests or sit-in’s, no name-calling or Jim Crow exasperation, and certainly no complaining that this disadvantaged Republicans, which studies show it did. Silence, hypocritical silence.

Ballot order is no longer a rigged game. Countless
studies show the candidate who’s listed first in a given race gets some
small advantage from voters who just check a box instead of making an
informed decision (And by countless, we really mean too many to link to
here; just Google “Ballot Order Study” and start reading). Previous
North Carolina law mandated that the party with the highest number of
registered voters statewide got their candidates mentioned first; there
are 2,766,467 registered Democrats and 1,989,597 registered Republicans
in the state, meaning Democratic names always come first. Section 31.1
of the new law puts the name of the candidate who shares a party with
the governor on top. That means Republicans will show up at the top of
the ballot in 2014, but that Democrats will the next time they elect a
governor.