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Changes include making most mail ballots due by election day and making ballots associated with same-day registrations provisional
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2023 @ 12:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Private election administration funding, or “Zuck bucks,” influenced the outcome of some races in the 2020 election in North Carolina
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 7:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Elections (SBE) used faulty procedures to certify flawed election equipment
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 @ 11:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina State Board of Elections is accepting public comments on a request for absentee ballot signature varification through July 5.
Published: Monday, July 18th, 2022 @ 12:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The public comment period runs to July 5
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 4:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Elections has opened a written public comment period for a request by the North Carolina Republican Party for the State Board to authorize county boards of elections to scrutinize voter signatures on absentee ballot request forms and absentee ballot return envelopes.
Published: Sunday, June 12th, 2022 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The two-witness requirement is a vital part of protecting your vote but witnesses must respect the privacy of that vote
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 8:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, county boards of elections across North Carolina began sending absentee-by-mail ballots to registered voters who requested them for the May 17 primary and certain municipal elections.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Republican lawmakers grilled State Board of Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell over her handling of the 2020 election in a testy back-and-forth hearing.
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 7:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate is summoning the director of the State Board of Elections to answer questions about a controversial settlement she negotiated that upended voting rules just weeks before November’s election.
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 @ 11:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Though it is well-established and easy to see by the plain language of the statute and the settlement, Bell strongly declared at the end of her testimony that the collusive settlement “did not change the law."
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2021 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Justice Paul Newby has secured a majority of votes to become the next chief justice of the state of North Carolina now that all 100 counties have officially completed their canvass of the 2020 election and have certified the results.
Published: Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 @ 6:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A federal judge noted his “serious concerns” about the N.C. state elections board in an order issued Friday, Oct. 30.
Published: Friday, November 6th, 2020 @ 6:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Over the past few weeks, I have seen headlines such as “Black voter’s mail-in ballots being rejected at a higher rate, “Black voters are disproportionately having mail ballots rejected in North Carolina” and “North Carolina’s Witness Rule Favors White Voters“
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 9:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The 2018 ballot harvesting in Bladen County is hardly the only case of 21st-century election fraud in North Carolina
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 12:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Lawyers on both sides of North Carolina’s absentee-ballot legal dispute could spend much of their weekend working.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2020 @ 5:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s deadline for accepting mail-in absentee ballots in this year’s election finally may be settled at the venue state conservative leaders wanted: the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2020 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Blind and visually impaired voters in North Carolina may now request, receive, and return an accessible absentee ballot online.
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 7:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The election lawsuit merry-go-round keeps turning, as tens of thousands of North Carolinians cast ballots at early voting sites, and legislative leaders urge the State Board of Elections to “stop this chaos.”
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 10:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judge William Osteen Jr. of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued two orders on the evening of October 14 in the ongoing dispute.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 8:18 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A U.S. District Court judge will not permit N.C. election officials to count absentee ballots that lack a witness signature required by law.
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 10:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two lawsuits challenging the N.C. State Board of Elections’ plans for handling absentee ballots this fall head before a federal judge Thursday, Oct. 8, in Greensboro.
Published: Friday, October 9th, 2020 @ 1:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last night the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the witness requirement for South Carolina’s absentee ballots.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 9:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Illegally moving the goalposts. Intentionally violating North Carolinians’ civil rights.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 11:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the State Board of Elections’ attempt to rewrite N.C. elections law.
Published: Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 @ 9:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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To usurp means “to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right,” according to my copy of Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 11:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge in the case of the State Board of Elections has handed Attorney General Josh Stein, Governor Roy Cooper and the State Board of Elections and staff a resounding rebuke.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2020 @ 10:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Fewer than six weeks from the 2020 general election, two of the five members of the State Board of Elections walked off the job.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2020 @ 11:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In what appears to be a blatant abuse of the classic sue and settle tactic, Governor Roy Cooper’s handpicked North Carolina State Board of Elections and Josh Stein have “agreed” to overrule statutory law and weaken bipartisan election protections.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 3:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The day after the state announced a settlement with Democratic super-litigator Marc Elias likely gutting absentee ballot protections, the State Board of Elections’ two Republican members resigned.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 2:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections Friday morning voted to release the following documents to promote transparency and public confidence in the administration of elections
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 12:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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