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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill Thursday that restructures the North Carolina State Board of Elections by splitting the appointments between the majority and minority legislative leaders.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 4:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina General Assembly sent Gov. Roy Cooper a bill on Friday that restructures the North Carolina State Board of Elections by splitting the appointments between the majority and minority legislative leaders.
Published: Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 @ 12:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today the North Carolina House has voted to override Governor Cooper's veto of Senate Bill 747, a bill which will make significant improvements to North Carolina's election laws and further strengthen the integrity of our elections.
Published: Monday, November 20th, 2023 @ 7:01 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina’s election reform bill, Senate Bill 747, would require the state and county boards of elections to provide more information on elections and increase the frequency of list maintenance
Published: Friday, November 17th, 2023 @ 11:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week on the Debrief, conflict over a new elections bill, and the legislature looks to roll back more executive appointment powers.
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 1:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Republicans voted on Tuesday to override Democrat Governor Roy Cooper’s vetoes of two election bills that Republicans say will increase election integrity and Cooper claims are a “threat” to democracy.
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 10:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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Additions to the Bill Include Early Voting, Election Observer, Reforms.
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s election reform bill, Senate Bill 747, would prevent “Zuck bucks” from being used to influence elections
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An election reform bill that has cleared the N.C. Senate could have a major impact on a federal lawsuit dealing with felon voting.
Published: Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 @ 12:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, the North Carolina House Rules Committee voted in favor of changes to Senate Bill 747, laying a framework for major election law changes in the Tar heel state.
Published: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023 @ 4:49 pm
By: Kevin Smith
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On Tuesday, the Senate Rules Committee passed two bills—Senate Bills 747 and 749—that would significantly impact elections in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 @ 6:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This Week in Raleigh
Published: Friday, August 11th, 2023 @ 11:10 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The proposed changes to mail-in voting would have minimal impact — in 2022, 99.8% of all ballots were in by election day
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 @ 12:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Senate's Republican election leaders have unveiled an omnibus bill that would set Election Day as the absentee ballot deadline and ban "Zuck bucks."
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 9:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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House Bill 99 looks to modify Wake County Commissioners elections from partisan and countywide to non-partisan elections and by district. This proposed change has caused some to exaggerate the impact of the bill. So, what do the numbers say?
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 7:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 99, sponsored by Erin Paré (R-Wake), introduces an essential reform to how county commissioners would be elected in Wake County. It also makes a change that would deny voters helpful information.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill designed to block the state attorney general from entering collusive lawsuit settlements. It’s Cooper’s 11th veto this year and No. 64 since he took office in 2017.
Published: Friday, November 5th, 2021 @ 4:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state House voted 58-47 Wednesday, Sept. 15, to endorse a bill requiring the state attorney general to get approval from legislative leaders before settling lawsuits on their behalf. The bill now heads to the governor.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 11:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I wrote last week on Senate Bill 326, which includes several important reforms to North Carolina’s election laws
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 9:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the Senate it's S1.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 3:16 pm
By: LifeZette
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The fate of the massive elections bill, H.R. 1, now sits with the U.S. Senate.
Published: Thursday, April 1st, 2021 @ 9:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Republican lawmakers filed legislation to ban mail-only elections and tighten oversight for voting by absentee ballot.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 @ 8:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2017-18 session of the N.C. General Assembly wrapped up Thursday, setting a record by overriding the 22nd and 23rd vetoes of the biennium
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2018 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper shared the following statement on Election Fraud Secrecy
Published: Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 @ 11:37 am
By: Governor's Office
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Critics of North Carolina's Republican-led General Assembly like to quote the words "almost surgical precision."
Published: Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 @ 10:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It didn't take long into the teleconference to learn that the Chairman of the Board called the emergency meeting because he wanted the board to write a letter to members of the legislature. The board's chair, Andy Penry (Democrat), made a motion for the board's general counsel, Josh Lawson
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 11:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today Republicans in the State Senate voted House Bill 100 into law, which restores Party affiliation to the ballot for judicial elections, despite Governor Roy Cooper's veto of the bill last week
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 11:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory's chief legal counsel said Tuesday that the governor, a Republican, decided to hire an outside lawyer to defend a lawsuit over the state's new voter identification and election law because of public statements about the law from Democratic state Attorney General Roy Cooper.
Published: Sunday, October 27th, 2013 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The mainstream media tells us that Gov. Pat McCrory has 38 bills sitting on his desk waiting for signatures or vetoes.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2013 @ 5:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The state House has approved a bill that would remove a vestige of Jim Crow days from the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 6:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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