North Carolina voters turned out in droves on the weather-friendly first day of the early voting period Thursday, with nearly 230,000 ballots cast across the state as of 5:30 p.m.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 7:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A U.S. District Court judge will not permit N.C. election officials to count absentee ballots that lack a witness signature required by law.
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 10:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Katie Pavlich argues at TownHall.com that Democrats’ push for mass mail-in voting this year could backfire.
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 9:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two lawsuits challenging the N.C. State Board of Elections’ plans for handling absentee ballots this fall head before a federal judge Thursday, Oct. 8, in Greensboro.
Published: Friday, October 9th, 2020 @ 1:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last night the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the witness requirement for South Carolina’s absentee ballots.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 9:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Eligible individuals who want to cast their ballot on Election Day 2020 have until Friday, October 9 to register to vote.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 2:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the State Board of Elections’ attempt to rewrite N.C. elections law.
Published: Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 @ 9:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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To usurp means “to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right,” according to my copy of Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 11:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections is reminding voters that North Carolina law prohibits taking photographs of or videotaping voted ballots.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 3:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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With 33 days until the November 3 election, county boards of elections have approved the absentee ballots of about 300,000 voters.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2020 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The judge in the case of the State Board of Elections has handed Attorney General Josh Stein, Governor Roy Cooper and the State Board of Elections and staff a resounding rebuke.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2020 @ 10:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Late last night, merely hours before the review of absentee ballots began, the North Carolina State Board of Elections sent out an email commanding that county boards comply with Director Bell's illegal, unconstitutional memos or be fired.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 @ 8:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Real results could take weeks.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 9:35 pm
By: LifeZette
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Former Clinton campaign adviser Dick Morris predicted during a Sunday interview that the 2020 presidential election is going to drag out because of mail-in voting and end up being decided by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 3:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s 2020 general election began on September 4, when thousands of absentee ballots were sent to voters. Thirty-two ballots (from military or overseas voters) were returned and accepted that same day.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 5:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County Board of Elections Supervisor Kellie Hopkins takes her place in the "What's Happening NOW" to discuss Absentee Ballots in North Carolina vs. Universal Mass Mailing.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 @ 7:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Below is NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley’s Statement regarding the recent court ruling allowing convicted fellows to vote before completing their full sentence.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 @ 5:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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By state law (GS 163-231(b)(1)), absentee ballots can only be “transmitted by mail or by commercial courier service, at the voter’s expense, or delivered in person, or by the voter’s near relative or verifiable legal guardian.”
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2020 @ 10:51 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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More than 200,000 North Carolinians have already requested an absentee mail-in ballot for November’s elections
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 @ 1:53 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In this upcoming 2020 Presidential Election, with so many down ballot candidates incredibly important to properly govern our people, the more I continue to consider the Mass Mailing of ballots to these far too many "To Whom it May Concern"s, I am reasonably assured this will be a contested election.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2020 @ 5:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As mail-in absentee ballot requests surge in North Carolina, the State Board of Elections this week released an improved North Carolina Absentee Ballot Request Form for the November 3 election.
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2020 @ 11:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Stanford law professor who played a major role in recent redrawing of N.C. election maps is issuing a national warning about mail-in balloting.
Published: Friday, August 7th, 2020 @ 4:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A judge has dismissed Democratic attempts to throw out North Carolina’s protections against absentee voting fraud.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 11:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2020 election season started with clear examples of the folly of our unquestioned faith in technology for voting.
Published: Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 @ 2:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The State Board of Elections has learned that a voter advocacy group mailed about 80,000 absentee ballot request forms to North Carolina residents with voters’ information already filled out on the forms.
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2020 @ 12:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republicans on Tuesday, June 2, amended a bill to tighten oversight of absentee ballots and address possible voter fraud in the Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee.
Published: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 @ 7:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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John Fund of National Review Online takes aim at proposals to boost the use of mail-in ballots during 2020 elections.
Published: Thursday, May 14th, 2020 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mark Hemingway explains at Real Clear Politics why we should be wary of pleas for more mail-in election ballots.
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2020 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After the March 3 primary election, the State Board will randomly select precincts, early voting sites and by-mail ballots to be counted by hand in every county.
Published: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 @ 10:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections is reminding voters that North Carolina law prohibits taking photographs of or videotaping voted ballots. N.C.G.S. § 163-166.3
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 1:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Like a lot of political junkies, I switched on the news last Monday night to watch the Iowa caucus returns. It was 10:00 PM (Eastern Time) by the time I had tucked the kids in and done some housework.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2020 @ 12:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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