A CBS News report released Monday shows Jim Womack, chairman of the Lee County Republican Party and a North Carolina “election integrity” activist, listing “Hispanic sounding last names” as one of several factors that could make a voter “suspicious” and subject to challenge.
From the CBS report:
In a video obtained by CBS News, the leader of an “election protection” activist group of 1,800 volunteers in North Carolina is seen instructing attendees at a virtual meeting to flag voters with “Hispanic-sounding last names” as one way to identify potentially suspicious registrations as the group combs through voter rolls ahead of the 2024 election.
“If you’ve got folks that you, that were registered, and they’re missing information… and they were registered in the last 90 days before the election, and they’ve got Hispanic-sounding last names, that probably is, is a suspicious voter,” said James Womack, the leader of the effort, who chairs the Republican Party in Lee County, North Carolina. “It doesn’t mean they’re illegal. It just means they’re suspicious.”
Womack, a former Lee County Commissioner from 2010 to 2014, has long been a source of political controversy locally and has made multiple unsuccessful bids to become chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. He responded to the video obtained by CBS News that “the Hispanic-sounding last name certainly is not exclusive,” and listed other factors he said could deem a voter “suspicious.”
The CBS piece quotes Jeff Loperfido, chief counsel of voting rights at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, pushing back against that claim.
“The idea that you combine those things and it equates to a suspicious voter is not true. Anyone targeting voters based on that kind of analysis and Hispanic last names, you are playing with fire,” he said in the story.
Womack’s wife Sherry is on the 2024 ballot seeking a third term on the Lee County Board of Education.
I respect Mr Womack & so Glad he’s willing to Say what others will not!!! We All Know Voter Fraud is A real thing!!
We should vote for him to no longer get served at Hispanic restaurants as well!!
Yes sir, fraud is a real thing ,but let me tell you something,I’m closer to Hispanic people, they are here because they did not have any opportunity on their countries, they are here to get a better life and I can assure you that they don’t vote illegally. Most Hispanics don’t want any trouble with the police or get involved in problems.If you see any Hispanic people voting is because they are citizens. Please don’t believe everything you hear from politicians during campaigns, they often do it to generate controversy.
If it were only that simple. This is in the news…
After Democrats and the corporate media have insisted for months that Republican warnings about non-citizens voting were nothing more than “conspiracy theories,” the Biden Department of Justice is now suing Virginia for enforcing a 2006 law and removing non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls. Thanks to Youngkin’s August executive order beefing up enforcement of that law, more than 6,300 non-citizens – ineligible voters – were removed from Virginia’s voter rolls. As Democrats have so often repeated in recent months, it is against federal law for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. Youngkin’s proactive approach helped ensure the law was enforced.
But instead of bipartisan applause over this common-sense reform, Democrats at the state and federal level have lobbed accusations of “voter suppression” at Youngkin, culminating in the DOJ’s lawsuit. In other words, Democrats are outraged that Republicans are preventing non-citizens from being registered to vote and casting ballots – exactly what liberals have insisted “isn’t happening.”
Fact Check:
“.. but a review of (Virginia) state court records and interviews with elections officials found no evidence that any noncitizens have tried to vote during (Governor Youngkin’s) term in Virginia, which does not allow residents who are not citizens to vote in any elections. As few as three people have been prosecuted for illegal voting of any kind in Virginia between Jan. 1, 2022, and July of this year, the records showed. None of those cases involved a question of citizenship.”
Breaking News: Jim Womack says some stupid racist shit. In other news, Water: Wet.
I say thank you to Mr Womack. Many illegals try to vote and should never be able to . That should include all races if not here legally.
But yet yall love that Mexican food huh!! 🤔
Yes, but if you’re not a legal citizen, you can’t vote. This is why requiring a valid government ID should be the law. My country of birth, Mexico, will not allow you to vote unless you have a government issued voter registration pic id. “Mexican citizens eighteen years of age and older are required to register in the Federal Electoral Registry to enable the establishment of a general list of electors from which the voters’ list is drawn and to request a voter identification card that bears a photograph of the applicant.”
Not really.
I don’t think your so called illegals can’t vote if they are illegal but hey I might just the stupid one here who knows
What a disgusting person he is. Trying to inflame a process and people is typical for someone like him: Republican and a loser.
Like you belonging to a party that teachers transgender stuff in the schools? How about killing babies after they’re born?
Hi Richard. Mind providing a source of where the Democratic party endorses killing a baby after it’s born?
Confirmation bias: “If it’s what I WANT to believe, then I believe it — regardless of whether it’s true or not!”
The Last Democratic governor of Virginia! How’s that?
If you think about, lots of other names could be suspicious also
News flash, Womack is a bigoted moron. Personally, I think the name Womack sounds suspicious and should be flagged at the pole.
If not for the many hard-working immigrants our American economy would not have enough workers to build our houses, pour our sidewalks, and do the hard work in our poultry and farm industry, Some people work — and some people just talk.
Womack sounds suspicious. Sounds like a name that would be involved with a failed insurrection attempt.
Not one single person should be able to vote illegally. PERIOD!!!!
This seems like another biased article to me, from the initial description of Jim Womack’s role in the NC Election Integrity Team which is a very real 501c(4) organization as simply an “election integrity” activist sets the tone of demeaning his efforts as part of an organization and trying to portray him as a maverick, racist trying to chase down illegal voters. And while I understand this is an article about a CBS story about him, couldn’t our local news journalist attempt to reach Jim for his own response? While listing the factors Jim mentioned to screen voting lists the article jumps right over the fact that missing information for registration such as proof of citizenship or a Social Security number is pretty important and jumping right into the last factor of “Hispanic names”. Just the kind of righteous, biased journalism that inspires such trust in the media nowadays. And once again, the “expert” cited by CBS only has a critique to make instead of providing his own “expert” guidance on what factors should be considered if screening for “suspicious voters”, which once again seems to be focusing on stirring up racial hate instead of preventing ineligible people from voting in our elections, and then claiming over and over again that there is no election fraud! C’mon experts, tell us what factors should be considered when looking for voter fraud, or is the argument that we should never look because it is inherently racist?
When Jim ran for Commissioner he put up portraits of himself as not to be confused with the another Jim Womack who used to be an elected official who is AA, and then gaslit the electorate say WB Wicker shouldn’t be refurbished and used a STEM school since it is “located in a dangerous neighborhood”, and now we have to watch out people with hispanic sounding names. I think it is pretty clear where Jim stands.
You can’t defend the ignorance in his quotes. The base he addresses has always felt how he’s felt. People that think, act, and speak differently will always be threats to those close minded, bigoted individuals.
Racist asshole does racist asshole things. More at 11.
I can’t believe he was given a seat on the CCCC Board.
Don’t believe the hype. Leftist MO, not classic liberalism, is not to be clear, twist truth enough, cheat, steal and lie. Look at his statement in context. “If you’ve got folks that you, that were registered, and they’re MISSING INFORMATION… and they were REGISTERED IN THE LAST 90 DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION, and they’ve got Hispanic-sounding last names, that PROBABLY is, is a SUSPICIOUS VOTER,” said James Womack, the leader of the effort, who chairs the Republican Party in Lee County, North Carolina. “IT DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE ILLEGAL. It just means they’re suspicious.” I know most of the people do not know or have heard that in the last 3.5 years over 10 to 20 million migrants mainly Hispanic and some other countries have flooded in through the southern border. A few weeks ago Bill Clinton said at a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris in Fort Valley, Georgia and in Columbus, Georgia, “We got the lowest birth rate we’ve had in well over 100 years. We’re not at replacement level, which means we got to have somebody come here if we want to keep growing the economy.” Yet they push for abortion as birth control. Not to mention they want to fast track citizenship for this group and lock in a new voting block as blacks and Hispanics are turning to the Republican party in groves. There are a number of states cleaning out their voting rolls finding 10 of thousands of voters that are not citizens voting. To say that I can’t get an ID because I’m Hispanic or because you’re black is tantamount to saying we are too dumb to get an ID and RACIST. The Dems ride in their jackass to save us from our dumb selves and require us to have no ID to vote making it sinfully inviting to cheat, but you cannot come to a Dem rally or event without an official government ID, passport, DNA test, face recognition certificate, an MRI and dental records.
I’m just amazed that nobody from Costa Rica or Belize are coming in over the border. In fact, if you are below Costa Rica, and want to get to the Mexican/US border, they bus you right through Costa Rica without stopping.
I know we have people coming in from at least 100 Countries, maybe more. BUT…we have a huge hispanic population in Lee County, and this area likes to keep them dumb downed, no need to learn English, or better yourself, we want our yards done, we want you to do the jobs we don’t want our children to do.
Lee County will give you your own grocery store, and your own flea market on US421.
There used to be a brick house on Main Street between Lee Ave. and Lemon Springs Road. Somebody tore it down. This place, and I was there “physically”, had a library downstairs with computers, and upstairs they were giving “hispanic” people ID cards of some sort. Almost like checking them in to Lee County, why, I don’t know, but you shouldn’t be doing this at a house! Like I said, I was volunteering to help the Republican party. I was helping Linda Swope (don’t know if that is spelled correctly) and in 2006 we had a ton of Democrats switching to Republicans in the Primaries. This was so the Democrats could vote in the primaries, for the WORST Republican. Yes, this is what the Democrats do. Once done, they could change back to a Democrat, but even if they stayed a Republican, they could still vote Democrat in the fall, in the general election.
All the good ole boyz in Sanford are your problem. It’s pretty sad when a Church is “for sale” in Broadway. And, yet we are building, building, building all over Lee County, without even thinking about the roads, traffic, water any of the important things. And, if you can’t afford to put food on your table how are these people going to be able to afford a home. We have bigger problems. There are very evil people in Lee County, I’m just waiting for the time when Pfizer and the other place go down, because they are being sued in 5 states, so far. Go ahead put your head in the sand, listen to those who are lying to you. OR do your own research. ONLY HIRE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SPEAK ENGLISH, MAKE THEMSELVES BETTER, I don’t care what country they come from, but I would like all Spanish stores to have to have their store fronts in ENGLISH! No Spanish anywhere, not even in the churches. And get rid of that stupid soccer field. Just because you are “comfortable” in your own space doesn’t mean terrible things aren’t happening in Lee County, NC.
You mean like Trump who was a registered Democrat?
Jim Womack is suspiciously like a Nazi.
I think Womack represents that rise of the old America First movement – the one usually identified with Charles Lindbergh and acceptance of German conquest of Europe. This is what the Tea Party and Trump channel an isolationist, nominally protestant, European descent America. For lack of a better description – a “white” American and when I say white I mean in the fullness of mayonnaise and white bread – an idealized 1950’s type America you used to see on the TV show Happy Days. The willingness to bully, to use force, to use violent or offensive rhetoric, is a tip of the hat to Mussolini style fascisms. A lot of folks like a strong man or “dictator” to make important decisions for them because it allows people to abdicate the responsibility of actually think through the effects of actions.
Comrade, you represent the “new” leftist, not liberal, in disguise cheering for America last and dead. SMH
“Womack says voters with “Hispanic sounding last names” could be “suspicious”. Yeah that sounds about right. No one is complaining about the northern border. Or the ports. I mean is this supposed to be controversial?