North Carolina Republican lawmakers cracking down on voter fraud have been getting the Texas-treatment lately from liberal mouthpieces who see racism under their beds at night, but an election case out of  the college town of Winston-Salem puts things in a different light.

A city council race is spurring complaints that a Democrat candidate is getting help from a professor and college students at a historically black university who are casting votes without being legal residents.

Is Rachel Maddow crying racism here?

Is The Nation putting it on its cover?

No.

The griping is coming from black Democrats, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

According to complaints filed with Winston-Salem State University, political science professor Larry Little let a candidate for re-election to the Winston-Salem City Council speak to his class last week, then let students out of class so they could go to an early voting site to cast Democrat primary votes, in transportation arranged by the councilman

That councilman was a former student, who won his first term in 2009 when the professor was his campaign manager. The pair defeated a long-time Democrat councilwoman in a low-turnout primary where student votes made the difference.

All that sounds too chummy even for other Winston-Salem Democrats, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

The historically black university has appointed a committee to investigate Little’s behavior, but the fact that its three members includes the university’s director of public relations tells you this is being treated more as a black eye to the campus than a case of the kind of electoral fraud North Carolina Republicans say they’re trying to stamp out.

Complainants include Jocelyn Johnson, Montgomery’s defeated opponent in 2009 who alleged that Montgomery had unfair access to students, questioned whether all the students  in the 2009 elections  were really residents, and asked the county elections board to look into allegations that students were given class credit for voting.

Both Montgomery and Johnson are black.

In other words, Johnson raised the same kind of complaint against a Democratic opponent – that he played fast and loose with minority voters, college student residency to get a big part of his base to the polls – that Republican lawmakers have made about North Carolina in general. That the WSSU campus has a history of of being anti-Republican to the point of breaking election laws and calling it an accident doesn’t help.

The liberal media won’t be calling black Democrats out for “racism” in the lifetime of anyone reading this, and the self-righteous lefties like The Nation and Eric Holder will keep acting like Jim Crow’s back because North Carolina voters will need to show  ID to vote and an early-voting site or two might be closed.

But it’s a case to remember when the libs start sobbing again about the “racism” of North Carolina Republicans.

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Joe Saunders, a 25-year newspaper veteran, is a staff writer and editor for BizPac Review who lives in Tallahassee and covers capital and Florida politics. Email Joe at [email protected].

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