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The Republican National Committee, North Carolina Republican Party, and two local GOP officials seek to intervene in three federal lawsuits challenging the state's new election law.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 2:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two federal lawsuits challenged North Carolina's new elections law on the same day legislators enacted the law over Gov. Roy Cooper's veto.
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 11:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the NC House Speaker Tim Moore released the following statement Gov. Cooper's intent to veto SB 747, "Elections Law Changes."
Published: Saturday, November 25th, 2023 @ 1:46 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Raleigh, NC – Today the House Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform Committee will consider Senate Bill 747, a bill which would make significant improvements to North Carolina's election laws.
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 12:00 am
By: ENC NOW
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The State Bureau of Investigation investigates crimes including drug trafficking, arson, embezzlement, and election law violations.
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2023 @ 8:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A lawsuit filed by The Republican National Committee, the N.C. Republican Party, and Clay County GOP Chair Barbara Deas over state election rules comes just as early voting by mail began Thursday, Sept. 8.
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2022 @ 8:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC), North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP), and the Clay County Republican Party Chair sued the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) for its unlawful actions restricting party election observers and extending the delivery deadline
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 7:14 pm
By: ENC NOW
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein wants a federal court to declare a 1931 state law unconstitutional.
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2022 @ 7:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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GOP Senate Banking Committee members, including U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., sent a letter to President Biden on Thursday, March 3, with continued concerns of the president’s selection of Duke University Law Professor Sarah Bloom Raskin for Fed Reserve Board vice chair of supervision.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 7:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Elections board counsel Katelyn Love has demonstrated both ignorance of, and contempt for, state election law
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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2020 NC elections, like states around the country, were marked by lawsuit settlements that changed voting rules without consulting the legislature
Published: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) voted against S.1, the For the People Act, legislation that would dramatically alter the election laws across our country.
Published: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Gov. Roy Cooper is leading a nationwide effort in cooperation with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to encourage business leaders to publicly oppose states that pass election-reform laws.
Published: Monday, April 26th, 2021 @ 1:21 pm
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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The North Carolina Board of Elections announced Civitalk a group founded by Cal Cunningham donor, Tony Sease, mailed 11,000 pre-filled voter registration forms in direct violation of state law.
Published: Friday, October 9th, 2020 @ 8:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A recent attempt to rewrite North Carolina elections law is just one piece of a larger plan to turn the state blue, a panel of experts say.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 3:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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The NCGOP applauds the Rules Commission’s unanimous rejection of the election law changes proposed by the State Board of Elections
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2020 @ 1:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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The NC State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) began an investigation into allegations of election law violations in May at the request of the NC State Board of Elections (NCSBE).
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2019 @ 5:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The second week of the 2019 long session saw continued bill filing and a handful of legislative committees.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2019 @ 7:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. Democrats have traditionally used courts as political chess pieces, but Republicans are trying - mistakenly - to turn the game in their favor by making institutional changes to boost party power, experts say
Published: Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 @ 4:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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NCGOP's Chairman Robin Hayes responds to Roy Cooper's elections lawsuit filing
Published: Friday, December 30th, 2016 @ 10:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressmen Walter B. Jones (R-NC-03) and Ted Lieu (D-CA-33) joined C-SPAN to discuss a recent lawsuit which they filed against the Federal Election Commission, seeking to abolish super PACs.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 10:21 am
By: Russell Allen
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The State Board of Elections voted Saturday to dismiss the election protest of Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. of Bladen County, citing a lack of substantial evidence of a violation of election law or other irregularity or misconduct sufficient to cast doubt on the results of the election.
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 8:51 am
By: Russell Allen
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Today, the North Carolina Police Benevolent Association (NCPBA) endorsed Pat McCrory for governor as support for his re-election campaign among the law enforcement community continues to grow across the state
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2016 @ 7:02 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Over the past four years, state policymakers in Raleigh have adopted a series of sweeping changes in public policy, including a new state tax code, school choice, new energy policies, election laws, and historic reforms of the regulatory process. Some North Carolinians have welcomed these...
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 4:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much has been written about the attorneys the Governor and the legislative leaders have hired to defend the Voter Information Verification Act (VIVA) against lawsuits brought by the NC-NAACP, the ACLU and the U.S. Justice Department. In contrast, to date, there have been no stories spotlighting the
Published: Sunday, July 6th, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Using ncvotetracker.com you will be able to break down the vote by the method of voting utilized – absentee (one-stop and by-mail), Election Day, provisional, transfer and curbside voting.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 7:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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This year's short session of the General Assembly may live up to its name. Lawmakers return to the capital today for the first time since the historic 2013 session in which they reformed the tax code, cut taxes, enacted broad changes to election laws, fought back against Medicaid expansion and...
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 12:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's demise was part of the draconian elections overhaul passed by the legislature and signed by the governor last month that makes it harder for North Carolinians to register and vote.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 9:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yep. I find that hard to believe, as well. We've documented the story about mentally-handicapped people being hauled to the polls on election day to "cast votes."
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 11:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Arizona campaign finance law that allowed some candidates to receive rescue funds from taxpayers. North Carolina lawmakers and advocates sorted through the implications for the Tar Heel State.
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2012 @ 3:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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