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A four-year federal investigation into voter fraud in North Carolina during the 2016 election has ended, netting 70 total charges, including 40 charges of individuals voting illegally.
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 8:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two Republican candidates are joining President Trump on North Carolina’s presidential ballot — against the wishes of the N.C. Republican party.
Published: Thursday, December 26th, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A story out from Charlotte Observer reporter Jim Morrill confirms that Joshua Malcolm, former Chair of the defunct North Carolina State Board of Elections, will not be nominated to serve on the new NCSBE.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 10:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tuesday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway rejected Harris' petition to force the State Board of Elections to certify him the winner of the hotly disputed 9th U.S. Congressional District election.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 1:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Republican Party has submitted a list of four nominees for the new State Board of Elections, from which Gov. Roy Cooper will select two. The N.C. Democratic Party offered its list Thursday afternoon, and one prominent name won't be among its four nominees.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 12:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This afternoon, leaders from the around the Ninth Congressional District held a press conference at NCGOP headquarters.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 @ 11:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republicans and Democrats held dueling news conferences Monday afternoon, trying to sway public opinion on the question of whether GOP Rep.-elect Mark Harris should be seated in the state's 9th U.S. Congressional District.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 @ 8:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This morning, the North Carolina Republican Party held a press conference laying out the problems with the Ninth Congressional District investigation in specific detail.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 12:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes released the following statement in response to the story that former Bladen County Board of Elections Vice Chairman Democrat Jens Lutz engaged in absentee ballot irregularities.
Published: Sunday, January 20th, 2019 @ 3:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republican Rep.-elect Mark Harris says he expects a state court will certify him the winner of the disputed 9th U.S. Congressional District election.
Published: Saturday, January 19th, 2019 @ 3:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement announced Friday it plans to hold an evidentiary hearing Jan. 11, 2019, on alleged ballot irregularities in the race for an open seat in 9th Congressional District
Published: Monday, December 24th, 2018 @ 8:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A "systematic failure of the election process" may warrant a new election in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, N.C. Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes says
Published: Thursday, December 13th, 2018 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Leslie McRae Dowless, the political operative at the heart of potential absentee mail-in ballot misconduct in Bladen County, is a person of interest in the 9th Congressional District investigation, the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has confirmed
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 12:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joshua Malcolm, chairman of the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, Monday asked a panel of Superior Court judges to keep the board in place until it completes an investigation of alleged irregularities in the 9th U.S. Congressional District race
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has begun disclosing evidentiary materials related to its investigation of election fraud in the 9th Congressional District election
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 7:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement should get a little more time to reorganize as it deals with challenges to the outcome in North Carolina's 9th U.S. Congressional District race
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 8:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joshua Malcolm, chairman of the State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement, issued a letter this week directing agency staff to review and post materials associated with the investigation into election processes in certain counties within the 9th Congressional District
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 8:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper named Joshua Malcolm Chair of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and appointed former board member Robert Cordle to the board's vacant position
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 @ 12:19 pm
By: Governor's Office
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In a bipartisan decision Friday, the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement decided to hold a public evidentiary hearing into claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities related to absentee by-mail voting and potentially other matters in the 9th Congressional District contest
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 2:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State elections officials referred four-term state Rep. Rodney Moore, D-Mecklenburg, for investigation and possible prosecution, saying there was "clear and convincing evidence" he failed to report more than $141,000 in election campaign receipts and expenditures
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 7:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When President Trump visited North Carolina he assured our state that the federal checkbook would be opened and that we would get almost anything we wanted from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Published: Thursday, September 27th, 2018 @ 2:14 am
By: Tom Campbell
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In a rare show of unity, the state elections board unanimously agreed during a Sept. 7 teleconference to challenge federal subpoenas of millions of voter records
Published: Friday, September 14th, 2018 @ 7:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement on Friday unanimously authorized the N.C. Attorney General's Office to take necessary steps to quash recent grand jury subpoenas served by federal authorities on the State Board and County Boards of Elections
Published: Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 @ 4:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Conference of the NAACP and Clean Air Carolina are asking Wake County Superior Court to strip four proposed constitutional amendments from the Nov. 6 general election ballot
Published: Thursday, August 16th, 2018 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has filed a court challenge to two constitutional amendments because they “would take a wrecking ball to the separation of powers” by rewriting bedrock constitutional provisions — including the Separation of Powers Clause itself
Published: Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 @ 5:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, will have a Democratic challenger in the general election after all
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A last-minute change to Senate Bill 325 - which originally would have lowered state personal and business income taxes - instead became the vehicle to change early voting hours and days
Published: Saturday, July 14th, 2018 @ 12:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper chose Damon Circosta, executive director of the A.J. Fletcher Foundation - which provides grants for charitable causes and is a major funder of the left-leaning N.C. Justice Center - as the ninth and final member of the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2018 @ 5:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Elections has set a deadline of 7 p.m. Monday for a machine recount of more than 90,000 disputed ballots that were not tabulated by voting machines on election night
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Elections has set a deadline of 7 p.m. Monday for a machine recount of more than 90,000 disputed ballots that were not tabulated by voting machines on election night.
Published: Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a 3-2 party-line vote, the State Board of Elections on Wednesday ordered a machine recount of more than 90,000 ballots that were reported late on election night
Published: Friday, December 2nd, 2016 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the second consecutive Sunday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections held an emergency meeting by conference call to take up challenges to the handling of the Nov. 8 election at the county level
Published: Monday, November 28th, 2016 @ 10:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to instruct county elections boards to continue counting ballots to determine winners in as many races as possible
Published: Friday, November 25th, 2016 @ 2:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an emergency meeting Sunday afternoon, the State Board of Elections voted to meet Tuesday at 10 a.m. to establish legal guidelines for counties to resolve complaints about ballot challenges in the Nov. 8 election
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 3:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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