Well - you were probably wondering anyway - right? Now it is official.
In the just released EIP report, North Carolina’s overall electoral integrity score of 58/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. If it were a nation state, North Carolina would rank right in the middle of the global league table – a deeply flawed, partly-free, democracy that is only slightly ahead of the failed democracies that constitute much of the developing world.
I read something the other day about how the USA's President-Elect actually has no shame. Adding the North Carolinian Republican State elected officials into that category.