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During day two of a trial in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law, Senate Republicans highlighted supportive comments uttered by Democrats when the General Assembly approved the law in 2018.
Published: Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 @ 6:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican legislative leaders say the NAACP deliberately omitted them from a federal lawsuit seeking to kill newly enacted voter ID legislation.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2019 @ 10:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House voted 72-40 Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 824, legislation implementing a constitutional amendment mandating voters present approved state-approved photo identification
Published: Sunday, December 30th, 2018 @ 8:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's new voter ID law is headed to court
Published: Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 @ 2:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An attorney who represented the Bladen County Improvement Association during a 2016 investigation into potential absentee ballot voting misbehavior says the organization was cleared of any wrongdoing
Published: Monday, December 24th, 2018 @ 7:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The nearly two-year battle over the Bipartisan Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement may come to a close soon with the General Assembly essentially handing Gov. Roy Cooper a victory in the separation-of-powers struggle
Published: Sunday, December 16th, 2018 @ 8:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican lawmakers unveiled a new bill at a Tuesday, Dec. 11 news conference which would return the Bipartisan Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement to two separate boards after years of court battles over the merger
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 12:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Voter ID is dead in North Carolina...or is it? U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' pronouncement on the matter raises many questions, and whereas opponents of the 2013 Voter ID law were quick to celebrate victory, they might have been premature
Published: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 @ 9:21 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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On July 27, Civitas’ Susan Myrick pointed out the conflict of interest of Judge Michael Morgan, who is not only running for the one opening on the state Supreme Court this year.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:56 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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It would seem that the Anointed One's Chief Skin Merchant, (Eric Holder - in case you were wondering) doesn't like the way North Carolina wants to run its elections.
Published: Monday, June 16th, 2014 @ 6:42 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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A crowded field is squaring off in the N.C. House District 58 race. Incumbent Rep. Alma Adams is making a run for the 12th District Congressional seat formerly held by U.S. Rep. Mel Watt. District 58 covers Guilford County's midsection, including much of Greensboro.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is telling that when Washington decides to attack North Carolina's new voting reforms, the nation's top legal authority paints a misleading picture of those laws.
Published: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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With the passage of HB 589 VIVA/Election Reform, the North Carolina legislature has produced the first comprehensive updating of our election laws in several decades.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The mainstream media tells us that Gov. Pat McCrory has 38 bills sitting on his desk waiting for signatures or vetoes.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2013 @ 5:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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This week, The US Supreme Court told Congress and the federal bureaucracy that it can finally stop punishing the South for The Civil War and The Jim Crow Era. The Left threw a fit.
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 6:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The North Carolina state House has pushed through legislation -however watered-down it may be -- requiring voters to show ID at polling places.
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 9:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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House Republicans have rolled out their voter identification bill.
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've got all kinds of folks at the federal and state level opining on this issue. (Never mind the anemic economic growth, the smothering bureaucracy, and the record unemployment.)
Published: Thursday, January 31st, 2013 @ 8:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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John Frank and the rest of "The Gang That Couldn't Report Straight" have found a state board of elections report showing that 613,000 state voters have NO photo ID whatsoever.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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There was little hope when the 2012 short session opened that the State House would gain the Democratic votes needed to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of the voter photo ID bill - HB 351 - that originally passed both chambers in 2011.
Published: Monday, July 30th, 2012 @ 7:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Carolina Journal recently reported on a concerted attack by left-of-center advocacy groups against the American Legislative Exchange Council -- a nonpartisan membership organization of state lawmakers that promotes federalism and free-market policies at the state level.
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2012 @ 12:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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