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For nearly a decade now, the composition and ownership of the North Carolina Board of Elections (NCSBE) have been a contested battle between the General Assembly and the Governor.
Published: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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From a Birmingham jail, where he was arrested for trying to help blacks exercise their right to vote, MLK wrote: "Remember, everything that Hitler did was legal."
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 9:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In 2010, when Democrat Charles Graham first ran for Robeson County’s state House District 47, he defeated Republican Brawleigh Graham by a more-than-comfortable 67% to 33% margin.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 2:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judicial Watch experts were up on Capitol Hill earlier this month explaining the implications of a big 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in the fierce battle for clean elections.
Published: Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 @ 4:40 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Remarks by President Biden on Protecting the Sacred, Constitutional Right to Vote
Published: Thursday, August 5th, 2021 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Kerry Picket writes for the Washington Examiner about the continuing popularity of voter identification.
Published: Sunday, April 11th, 2021 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Despite the 4th Circuit decision striking down the NC Voter ID law, there are options that our Governor, Pat McCrory, and our state legislature can take to provide reasonable and common-sense measures at polling places next month.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 5:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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If you want to know the difference between an assault weapon or military grade weapon, move on this article will not interest you. But this is not a primer on gun technology or nomenclature but on 2nd amendment rights and other rights that may be in jeopardy in the future
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 7:14 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Government requires money to do its work. Anarchists disagree. But for the vast majority of us, the real debates involve, first, how much money government needs and, second, how government ought to collect that money
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a surprise move, the actual elected chairman of the state Republican Party resurfaced to comment on the issues we raised in yesterday's post on the upcoming NCGOP convention.
Published: Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 @ 1:37 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I am not advocating beheadings
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 7:49 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Timeline of Events Leading to the Revolutionary War and beyond to its conclusion, and through the anti-climatic birthing pains.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:54 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The voter identification provision in North Carolina's new election law has drawn considerable attention from across the country. Democrats have, of course, been highly critical of it.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 @ 5:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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No, I'm not speculating about the president's strategies for implementing his health care law or besting Congressional Republicans in budget battles. Today's topic is closer to home: the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to file a lawsuit alleging that North Carolina's new election law...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thom Tillis and his team in the state House have pushed through a voter ID bill, but Jay DeLancey is NOT IMPRESSED.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 10:09 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Members of the House Elections Committee Wednesday received two starkly different versions of the effects of having a voter ID law.
Published: Friday, April 12th, 2013 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I really have tried to understand the clamor over the voter ID issue but I don't get it.
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 @ 6:38 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The constitutional revisions of 1835 resulted in great part from North Carolina's acceptance of Jacksonian democracy, a political movement that emphasized participation of the common man in the political process.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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History teaches us that the Ku Klux Klan was a violent organization aimed at terrorizing and intimidating former slaves. They operated as a secret society - a bunch of cowards with white gowns and masks, often carrying guns and a noose.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Voter photo ID (House Bill 351) has been dead in the water since Gov. Perdue cut it down with her veto pen last June.
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2012 @ 9:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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We hear a lot from the Obama administration and the Democratic Party about who in America is disenfranchised. And according to them, it certainly isn't the American taxpayer.
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 @ 1:09 am
By: Diane Rufino
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So, good 'ol Bev vetoed the Photo ID bill. The bill was clearly designed to disenfranchise a lot of voters, most of them minority, old, and poor.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2011 @ 8:41 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Young adults often wonder what their rights are in the public school system with respect to religion.
Published: Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 @ 10:59 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This is install considers: the the first ten in the Bill of Rights, an overview of the Constitution, and then the remaining seventeen of the Bill of Rights.
Published: Sunday, September 12th, 2010 @ 10:20 am
By: Diane Rufino
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