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The State Board of Elections has launched a multifaceted public education campaign designed to ensure the state’s 7.5 million registered voters know that they will be asked for photo identification when voting in 2024.
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 @ 6:13 pm
By: ENC NOW
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A hearing scheduled Nov. 21 at the federal courthouse in Winston-Salem could help determine the course of a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's photo voter identification law.
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 7:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Voter identification opponents defend their request to reopen discovery in a federal lawsuit. Republican legislative leaders and the State Board of Elections oppose new discovery.
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 8:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Top North Carolina legislative leaders object to voter identification critics conducting new discovery in a federal lawsuit. The State Board of Elections also objects to additional discovery.
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 @ 11:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Board of Elections unveiled plans for providing free photo voter identification cards at county boards of elections.
Published: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 7:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Auld wants more information from voter identification critics and supporters before deciding how a federal lawsuit will move forward.
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 12:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina's 2018 voter identification law will head back to a Greensboro courtroom on July 26.
Published: Sunday, September 24th, 2023 @ 8:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Registered voters who do not have an acceptable identification card for voting in North Carolina can now go to their county board of elections office to get a free ID.
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 @ 10:29 am
By: ENC NOW
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On Friday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced that voters will be required to show valid identification in order to vote in the 2023 municipal elections.
Published: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 11:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The full N.C. Supreme Court has agreed that Justice Phil Berger Jr. can participate in the rehearing of the Holmes v. Moore voter identification case.
Published: Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 @ 4:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With 4-3 party-line votes, N.C. Supreme Court Democrats threw out the state's photo voter identification law and the state Senate election map.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 10:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the N.C. Supreme Court’s oral arguments in cases dealing with voter identification and redistricting.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 1:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Voter Identification Assurances & Election Reforms
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 10:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson testified in Washington D.C. Thursday, passionately arguing that people of all races and backgrounds are fully capable of obtaining voter identification and participating in a secure voting system.
Published: Thursday, April 29th, 2021 @ 6:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Three years after the N.C. electorate decided to add a voter identification requirement to the state constitution, Republican lawmakers are defending voter ID in court.
Published: Friday, April 16th, 2021 @ 2:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Judicial Watch today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit adopted the argument put forth by Judicial Watch and Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) in their amici curiae brief when it upheld Alabama’s 2011 Photo Voter Identification Law.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2020 @ 1:21 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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More than a year has passed since North Carolina voters adopted a constitutional amendment requiring voters to present state-approved identification documents at the polls.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2020 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein will not seek to restore North Carolina's voter identification requirement for the 2020 primary election.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 @ 5:48 am
By: Diane Rufino
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein will not seek to restore North Carolina’s voter identification requirement for the 2020 primary election.
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2020 @ 10:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Most North Carolinians think it is reasonable for voters to show identification before casting a ballot.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2019 @ 5:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Beaufort County Board of Elections will hold two educational seminars about voter photo identification requirements at 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Monday, July 15th, 2019 at the Beaufort County Board of Elections Office at 1308 Highland Drive, Suite 104, Washington, NC 27889
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 6:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. State Board of Elections is seeking public comments from June 21 to July 12 on proposed rules changes related to the implementation of the new voter ID law, including the photo identification requirement for absentee-by-mail voting.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @ 2:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Board of Elections staff will host a public hearing Wednesday, March 13, to receive comments on proposed rules regarding the implementation of North Carolina's new voter identification requirement.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 7:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina voters have tried for a long time now to enact a common-sense voter identification law.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 10:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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North Carolina now has its second voter identification law. A federal court voided the first because it would not consider forms of ID disproportionately used by minorities, such as cards or documents given to government employees, students, and people on public assistance.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 11:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On November 6, an amendment to the North Carolina constitution requiring voters to present a photo identification for voting in person (the "Voter ID" amendment) passed with 55 percent support.
Published: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 @ 12:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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These descriptors were tossed around the N.C. House floor during a Dec. 5 debate over a bill which codifies a new constitutional amendment requiring voters to present photo identification at the ballot box
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 7:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With little debate, the N.C. Senate Thursday morning sent Senate Bill 854, the measure implementing the constitutional amendment requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls, to Gov. Roy Cooper
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On November 6, an amendment to the North Carolina constitution requiring voters to present a photo identification for voting in person (the "Voter ID" amendment) passed with 55 percent support.
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2018 @ 10:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A bill to satisfy North Carolina's new constitutional amendment requiring photo identification for voters is too broad, allowing multiple forms of voter identification that could gum up the system and encourage voter fraud, some Republican legislators say
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2018 @ 10:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although recent court decisions might lead you to think otherwise, North Carolina voters are probably going to have to present photo identification to cast ballots in the near future
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2017 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down the Republican-led General Assembly’s laws requiring voter identification at the polls, altering early voting
Published: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Division of Motor Vehicles and the State Board of Education appear to have worked out a hiccup in the state's new voter identification law that could have made it harder for some out-of-state students attending college in North Carolina to vote.
Published: Sunday, August 31st, 2014 @ 10:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A parade of witnesses came to testify against North Carolina’s new voting reforms – but a look at their backgrounds shows they all have ties to the radical liberal network of groups known as Blueprint NC and/or have strong ties to the Democratic Party.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Yes, state board member, Maja Kricker, really did rule at the State Board of Elections (SBOE) meeting today. Her opinion was the only opinion that counted when it came to the five member SBOE voting on one-stop variance requests made by county board of elections.
Published: Friday, August 1st, 2014 @ 3:16 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As a federal court case regarding election reform laws passed by North Carolina legislators in 2013 has become a major national news item, we await a judge's ruling in the preliminary injunction hearing.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 7:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In this year’s legislative session Democratic legislators have submitted several bills that attempt to roll back sections of last year’s landmark election reform legislation (the Voter Identification Verification Act – VIVA), and this week’s Bad Bill highlights one of them.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 6:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Puzzled by the past several months of histrionics about North Carolina's election-law changes? You're hardly alone. By any objective standard, the Voter Identification and Verification Act enacted last year was commonsensical in structure and modest in potential effects.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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