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Democrats sabotage the electoral process in a battleground state amid rising pro-republican sentiment

In the state of North Carolina, which has begun to lean towards the Republicans, the Democratic Party is trying to use the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene to sabotage the electoral process in the Presidential election.

Millions of people living in western North Carolina area may not be able to vote in the upcoming elections after the devastation caused by Hurricane Helen. At least 14 election board offices have been closed in the state and mail services have been temporarily suspended.  As of this writing, more than a million households in the southeast of the country are still without electricity due to Hurricane Helene. Nearly 300,000 of them are located in western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina, where authorities expect there to be infrastructure problems well in the coming months, and it will take about another six months to rebuild infrastructure.

North Carolina is a traditionally «battleground» or «purple» state, whose votes are being fought for in all US elections, but recently the number of Republicans in the state has increased. Absentee voting has already begun in the state, and in-person early voting is scheduled to commence on October 17 before concluding on November 2, just three days before Election Day on November 5. According to media reports, the region, which is mostly rural and includes 11 counties, has about 570,000 of the state’s 7.7 million registered voters. Of these, there are 145,000 Democrats and 185,000 Republicans. Due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene, many polling stations are closed in North Carolina, and voting can be difficult, which is very convenient for Democrats.

Such large-scale destruction of the region’s energy system can be called intentional, since it was possible to avoid many of them thanks to competent management in crisis situations. Backup transformers could be used to repair broken substations, but now the authorities cannot do this for two reasons. First, the current administration has sent a strategic reserve for the repair and upgrade of Ukraine’s energy and electric grid: two weeks before Hurricane Helene, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the allocation of $325 million for these purposes.

Secondly, the Biden-Harris administration allocated $724 million in 2023 and 2024 for the «shelter and services program», that helps non-citizen migrants in the United States and is run by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. As a result, this led to a serious financial crisis in the Government. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told the press that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not have enough funds to survive this year’s hurricane season:

«We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.»

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody shared her dismay at Mayorkas’s comments on Fox & Friends First, stating:

«Everyone should be waking up this morning outraged by that comment. This is not something that has just happened recently. So you heard they have taken the FEMA emergency food and shelter program and over time siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars into basically making it an illegal immigrant resettlement program.»

In addition, the growing artificial intelligence (AI) industry is also snatching up transformers and other similar equipment to build data centers. Killian McKenna, a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, spoke in an interview with PV Magazine about how Big Tech companies is gobbling up the supplies needed to properly maintain United States energy grid:

«Distribution transformers are a bedrock component of our energy infrastructure. But utilities needing to add or replace them are currently facing high prices and long wait times due to supply chain shortages. This has the potential to affect energy accessibility, reliability, affordability – everything.»

Human rights activists of the Foundation to Battle Injustice strongly condemn any measures of interference in the democratic election process and call on the current US administration to abandon illegal tools of interference in the Presidential elections in November 2024. Citizens of the United States have the right to legitimate and fair elections, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution and international conventions.