Follow the money, the saying goes.
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2020 @ 5:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An updated tool for voter statistics could provide clarity for North Carolinians during a global pandemic and disrupted election.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2020 @ 12:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, E.C. Sykes, the Republican nominee for North Carolina Secretary of State, announced his financial supporters broke the fundraising record set in 1996 for this seat and there are four months remaining in the campaign.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2020 @ 1:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Touchscreen voting systems suffer from numerous defects and the State Board of Elections (SBE) should not have approved of their use in North Carolina Elections.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 @ 3:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The General Assembly’s new election maps, as they are now, would largely even the playing field for 2020, experts say.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A court ruling will force N.C. lawmakers to redraw state House and Senate election maps for 2020. Regardless of how that process plays out, the state will need another set of new maps in 2021.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 @ 9:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new Civitas Institute poll shows a small majority of North Carolina voters describe themselves as pro-life
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Analysts are turning their attention to the 2020 presidential election, and North Carolina will likely play a big part
Published: Friday, November 30th, 2018 @ 12:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Craft brewers are waiting to learn whether a lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of the state's distribution cap and franchise laws will proceed
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Grover Norquist is using his considerable influence to push North Carolina lawmakers toward reforming restrictive laws governing craft beer
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 @ 7:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians have an insatiable taste for craft beers, and they have little tolerance for lawmakers who want to tamper with how they get their stouts and IPAs
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2017 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The power of incumbency is on display in the Senate District 19 race between Republican state Sen. Wesley Meredith and Democratic challenger Toni Morris.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 5:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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County boards of elections offices across North Carolina have scheduled more than 42,400 total hours of early voting for the 2016 general election, a 16 percent increase over 2012
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 4:11 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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It's a basic concept: Limit comparisons to items that can be compared reasonably. But too much of today's political discourse relies instead on apples-to-oranges comparisons, those comparisons that are unreasonable or perhaps impossible.
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Board of Elections officials say charges that North Carolina's new voter ID requirement led to long wait times at the polls and unnecessary confusion that harmed voters are off target
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2016 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What started out as a mission to tweak a few districts to bring the 1st and 12th congressional districts in line has resulted in radical change for a lot more voters and some political favors (as well as hits).
Published: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 1:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Was the 2014 Senate race between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican victor Thom Tillis really the most expensive race in North Carolina history, or in the country's entire election cycle last year?
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 5:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just when you thought things couldn't get any dumber than having that dude dress up like a duck during the recent US Senate race, the lads at NCGOP HruchoQ one-up themselves
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The midterm elections saw record turnout and relatively few glitches, but a few things stood out to undermine the liberal claim that "there is no voter fraud in North Carolina." Here are just a few examples of potential or actual fraud.
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2014 @ 12:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If he's not careful, Gov. Pat McCrory may be on course to have a "Pence problem" in 2015. In the days immediately following the mid-term elections, Gov. Pat McCrory insisted that - in spite of his party maintaining strong supermajority status in both houses of the General Assembly...
Published: Sunday, November 30th, 2014 @ 4:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Advancement Project, in a press release dated August 21, announced that the North Carolina NAACP was appealing U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder’s decision earlier this month to deny a preliminary injunction to block certain provisions of VIVA in the November 2014 election.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A hearing that liberal groups hoped would undermine North Carolina voting reform instead appears to have revealed their true objectives.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 6:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We're in the middle of the primary election season. These times are all about internal debates / discussions between party members as they chart the direction of and craft an agenda for their parties.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 12:35 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I was always under the impression that people elect you to the Senate so that you can give voice to THEIR concerns in Washington. Kay Hagan got elected from North Carolina, but she's put together a voting record that would earn her senator-for-life status in Massachusetts.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 10:58 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Every election cycle, I end up with ideas and nuggets of data at the end that don’t make it into my initial post-election column, either because of timing or space.
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 11:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new Civitas Institute study has confirmed what critics have been saying for years: North Carolina's Same Day and Last-Minute Voter Registration processes are seriously flawed.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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