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Raleigh, N.C. — North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes welcomes Allen Norfleet to the agency’s campaign finance leadership team.
Published: Sunday, August 23rd, 2026 @ 2:35 pm
By: ENC NOW
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With a little over a week to go before the state’s primary elections, Mount Olive native Ron Herring has been named as the director of election security and enforcement for the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), effective immediately.
Published: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 @ 12:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Personnel changes strengthen essential operations at state elections board
Published: Saturday, November 15th, 2025 @ 8:35 am
By: ENC NOW
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Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the NC State Board of Elections, recently was elected incoming president of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), putting her in line to serve as association president in 2026.
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2025 @ 7:05 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the NC State Board of Elections, recently was elected vice president of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 1:10 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Five State Board of Elections members were sworn in to four-year terms on Wednesday, and the Board reappointed Karen Brinson Bell as executive director.
Published: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 11:57 am
By: ENC NOW
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Two county board of elections executive directors still maintain ties with the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence
Published: Monday, February 27th, 2023 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the NC State Board of Elections, was sworn in late last week as secretary of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 2:43 am
By: ENC NOW
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State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell on Thursday updated the public on the investigation into suspected fraudulent signatures gathered for the Green Party’s bid for new party recognition in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 9:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Board of Elections voted Friday, May 14, to rehire Karen Brinson Bell as executive director.
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 4:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 360 is meant to resolve the type of situation that evolved in 2020 with actions taken by N.C. State Board of Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell.
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 @ 4:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican lawmakers grilled State Board of Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell over her handling of the 2020 election in a testy back-and-forth hearing.
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 7:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate is summoning the director of the State Board of Elections to answer questions about a controversial settlement she negotiated that upended voting rules just weeks before November’s election.
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 @ 11:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Though it is well-established and easy to see by the plain language of the statute and the settlement, Bell strongly declared at the end of her testimony that the collusive settlement “did not change the law."
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2021 @ 11:49 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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Last night, I wrote how it was incredible that the State Board of Elections (SBE) appointed SBE Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell to negotiate a settlement to a lawsuit on absentee ballots and other election rules
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 @ 12:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Civitas Institute filed public records requests with North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director, Karen Brinson Bell, Chairman Damon Circosta, and Attorney General Josh Stein.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2020 @ 12:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The following is a statement from Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections
Published: Sunday, September 20th, 2020 @ 11:36 pm
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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The following is a message to North Carolina voters from Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 1:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The following is a statement from Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the N.C. State Board of Elections, on Tuesday’s primary elections in North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2020 @ 5:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In an April 22 memo to Gov. Roy Cooper and the NC General Assembly, State Board of Elections (SBE) Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell predicted a “30% to 40% voter absentee-by-mail participation rate (compared to a 4% to 5% rate traditionally)” in the general election this November.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2020 @ 11:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Statement from Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections, on the bipartisan House Bill 1169, which was filed today in the N.C. House
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2020 @ 4:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On May 11, I noted that the State Board of Elections (SBE) was proposing to expand the emergency powers of SBE Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell
Published: Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 @ 2:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We recently published a story about the new proposal from the State Elections Board that would constitute an excess government overreach of power for the Executive Director.
Published: Sunday, May 10th, 2020 @ 8:38 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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On March 26, State Board of Elections (SBE) Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell sent the General Assembly a memo listing a host of changes she would like to see made to North Carolina election law.
Published: Friday, May 1st, 2020 @ 9:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Exercising her emergency powers on Friday, State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell rescheduled the Republican second primary in the 11th Congressional District to Tuesday, June 23.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 8:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Board Releases Video Informing Voters That Photo ID Will Not Be Required in March 2020 PrimaryThe State Board of Elections on Monday released a video of Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell informing North Carolina voters that they will not be required to show photo ID for the March 2020 primary election.
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 @ 5:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell on Tuesday approved 20 additional types of University of North Carolina System student and employee photo IDs for use in the 2020 elections.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 4:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell on Friday approved 49 additional types of student and employee photo identification for use in the 2020 elections.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 7:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections said cybersecurity worries prompted a delay in certifying election system vendors to sell voting machines to counties.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 @ 9:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections wants to pay incoming Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell nearly $30,000 more than her predecessor Kim Strach.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 6:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. State Board of Elections on Monday appointed Karen Brinson Bell as the Board’s executive director, the chief state elections official, effective June 1.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 12:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections ousted Executive Director Kim Strach Monday, May 13, on a party line vote, naming Karen Brinson Bell of Charleston, South Carolina, to replace Strach effective June 1.
Published: Thursday, May 16th, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The top official at the State Board of Elections wants tougher punishment for election crimes, suggesting special prosecutors should be appointed if district attorneys or federal authorities refuse to investigate wrongdoing.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State elections board Executive Director Kim Strach, at the request of a federal court panel ruling on the North Carolina's legislative districts, filed a 16-page report detailing the administrative processes and costs to implement a special legislative election in 2017
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The filing period for all nine Wake County school board seats opens at noon Thursday and ends at noon Wednesday, Aug. 17.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Board of Elections Executive Director Kim Westbrook Strach today issued the following statement regarding the panel decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Published: Sunday, July 31st, 2016 @ 3:35 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The State Board of Elections is reminding voters that tomorrow is Election Day and the deadline to postmark mail-in absentee ballots.
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 @ 3:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections today announced that 27 presidential candidates will appear on North Carolina’s presidential primary ballot. The North Carolina presidential primary will be held on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 4:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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