Hundreds of people who allegedly committed election fraud were referred to the State Board of Elections in 2020
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Biden administration is using agencies that provide aid to politically mobilize people dependant on that aid
Published: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 2:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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McCrae Dowless, the man at the heart of an alleged ballot trafficking (also known as ballot harvesting) scheme that resulted in an overturned congressional election, died on Sunday, April 24.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 6:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly (specifically the Senate) is using the budget process to press some policy goals.
Published: Friday, July 23rd, 2021 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2018 ballot harvesting in Bladen County is hardly the only case of 21st-century election fraud in North Carolina
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 12:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Toxic Agenda - Elections in Crisis, Part I examined how the Left, through the help of the North Carolina legislature, created an election system that ultimately favored Democrats for decades
Published: Thursday, April 26th, 2018 @ 8:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed four Democrats and four Republicans to the new merged board overseeing state elections and ethics enforcement
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After Republican Pat McCrory was elected Governor in 2012, North Carolina's well-organized Left-wing nonprofit policy groups met to map out an attack strategy
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2017 @ 7:21 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In January 2018, Tomas Lopez will replace Bob Hall as Executive Director of Democracy NC
Published: Sunday, October 15th, 2017 @ 11:02 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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So here we go again: another Presidential Election without real safeguards to protect our votes
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 2:55 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Friday, October 21, my colleague Susan Myrick and I published a report on how another North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) employee apparently was advising others to violate state election laws
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 @ 12:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When WRAL reported on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to throw out North Carolina's congressional maps barely a month ahead of the 2016 Primary, the station's "journalists" turned to their friends in three different organizations belonging to Blueprint NC (the "eviscerate"* group)...
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 3:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Two Charlotte media organizations, the Charlotte Observer and WBTV, ran stories last week about a legislator who appears to have made stealth changes to legislation that would possibly benefit some of his contributors
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2016 @ 11:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It is expected to take a little more than two years to implement the new voter photo ID law, but it will take a lot longer to change the dysfunctional culture that is entrenched in the state and local boards of elections and their staffs.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 6:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For all those who scream, "There is no voter fraud in North Carolina!" the silence was deafening after the latest revelation from the State Board of Elections (SBOE) regarding online voter registration during the 2012 election season.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 9:23 am
By: Thom Goolsby
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While asking for each of these offices to investigate items under their respective jurisdictions in relation to the SBOE, De Luca also asked the new SBOE to conduct an internal review of its own staff's actions.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 @ 2:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Supporters of public campaign financing have long claimed that it would never have a partisan slant. But the latest Civitas investigation has found how one liberal activist has taken control of the process.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 8:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The average low-information voter -- perhaps one of the few remaining paying McClatchy subscribers -- would look at that headline and say something like: "Hmmm. It sure does look like THAT Pat McCrory is covering something up!"
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2013 @ 7:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Three associates of former Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue -- New Bern attorney Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs, Morganton businessman Charles Michael Fulenwider, and former Western Piedmont...
Published: Sunday, April 28th, 2013 @ 8:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a blatantly partisan move, the staff of the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) successfully subverted state law to facilitate online voter registration in North Carolina by the 2012 Barack Obama campaign.
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 5:56 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I am getting sick and tired of seeing news stories that start off with that wording. The congressional GOP has "softened" its stance on -- among other things -- taxes, spending, immigration, and regulations.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 6:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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If you don't understand what Director Gary Bartlett is trying to explain to the State Board of Elections in this video that's okay, it's pretty evident the Board doesn't understand too much either.
Published: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 @ 3:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A Civitas investigation has revealed how lobbyist Bob Hall, Director of the liberal advocacy group Democracy North Carolina, is a behind-the-scenes driving force at the State Board of Elections (SBE).
Published: Sunday, December 16th, 2012 @ 12:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Representative Bill Cook (R-Beaufort) called on the State Board of Elections to declare him the winner of the State Senate District 1 race today following his 21 vote victory in Monday's district-wide recount.
Published: Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 @ 3:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Civitas Institute President Francis De Luca has called out the head of the State Board of Elections for lying about the state's elections process.
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2012 @ 7:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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While there will be a handful of European officials in North Carolina observing tomorrow's elections, a state elections official says their role will be to observe and learn about American elections.
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2012 @ 12:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The question about how much campaigning local courthouse employees should be doing for their boss' election has arisen in Harnett County as Democrat Register of Deeds Kimberly Hargrove battles to keep her job against Republican challenger Darryl Black.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 2:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The folks at Civitas did a great job of pointing out how many 112 year old North Carolina voters have cast ballots so far during early voting.
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2012 @ 7:55 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Bev Perdue's campaign committee is considering using some of the money left over in her campaign account to compile and publish papers from her life in public service.
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2012 @ 4:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Durham County Democrats say Republican complaints about hosting partisan Democratic events at government facilities are off-base because nothing prevents Republicans from using public meeting space for their own partisan activities.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 @ 10:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former state Rep. Van Braxton does not have to set up a legal expense fund in an effort to raise money to defray costs associated with a lawsuit filed by his 2010 opponent, the state elections director has ruled.
Published: Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 @ 7:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As North Carolina voters avoided the voting booth by the millions on Tuesday, election officials and academics called on the General Assembly to scrap the state's expensive, no-show runoff elections.
Published: Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 @ 11:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As someone who lives and dies by the strength of his opinion, on a variety of platforms, I am always intrigued by those who treat their opinions as something of an entity that is in constant transition.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2011 @ 9:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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