Update: Koch Brothers Organization Under Investigation in North Carolina

UPDATE:
On September 26, I wrote about the Koch brothers organization Americans for Prosperity mailing what they identified as an "official application form" to voters in North Carolina.  Not only was the mailing not official in any way--the North Carolina Board of Elections knew nothing about the mailing until they began to get questions and complaints--but it contained incorrect information including contradictory registration deadlines, return envelopes printed with a non-existent address and incorrect directions on how to contact the state Board of Elections.  You can read more here.

Yesterday, Joshua Lawson, a spokesman for North Carolina's board of elections, said that an investigation was underway over the mailing after a formal complaint was filed by the state's Democratic leadership.  

Americans for Prosperity has admitted to making "a few minor administrative errors."  Wrong dates...a non-existent address...misidentifying how to contact the board of elections...and let's not forget identifying their mailing as "official" when it was anything but.  These are "minor" mistakes?  While they admit their errors, the Koch organization did not say whether they had any intention of sending corrected mailings to those who received their erroneous information.

The report I read said that Americans for Prosperity has been caught mailing similarly incorrect information to voters in other states. (Slow learners or just confident in the belief their money would ensure they'd never actually be challenged?)

While this new investigation is just beginning, the case against new and restrictive voting laws recently passed by the North Carolina legislature is currently being heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  These new  laws reduce early voting days and add a requirement that voters have a state voter I.D.  One of the new regulations being reviewed by the court restricts voter registration drives.  One of the judges considering these restrictions asked state attorneys "Why does the state of North Carolina not want people to vote?"

This would seem like an excellent question to be posed to every Republican led state where new laws have been passed that make voting into a privilege to be earned instead of the American birthright our founding fathers envisioned. 

As a follow up question, I'd like to ask the GOP, "What are you so afraid of?"