The state Senate's Republican election leaders have unveiled an omnibus bill that would set Election Day as the absentee ballot deadline and ban "Zuck bucks."
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 9:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 88, titled the Election Day Integrity Act
Published: Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ 7:27 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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A lawsuit in Fulton County, Georgia, seeking a review of absentee ballots from the 2020 election in search of fraud is still alive and kicking.
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 9:26 am
By: Daily Wire
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For the next several weeks, I will present data on the 2022 election, focusing on absentee ballot requests, accepted absentee and early returns, and voter registration changes. That data is available through the John Locke Foundations Vote Tracker and other listed sources.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. State Board of Elections voted along party lines at their board meeting Thursday to reject a request from the NCGOP to have county boards of elections compare absentee ballot signatures with those that they have on file.
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 8:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Any registered and eligible North Carolina voter may now request an absentee ballot for the 2022 primary election online through the North Carolina Absentee Ballot Portal, available on the State Board of Elections’ website.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I spoke today at the General Assembly in favor of S326, entitled “Election Day Integrity Act.”
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 2:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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New legislation filed in the General Assembly would reduce the time voters have to turn in their absentee ballots, making the outcome of elections clearer in a shorter time.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 5:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The year was 2016. One of our democratic NATO allies had just held a presidential election that had been extremely close.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 1:29 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Nine county boards of elections are meeting today to consider a total of at least 4,300 additional absentee by-mail ballots, and approved ballots will be added to the unofficial results on the State Board of Elections website after the meetings.
Published: Monday, November 9th, 2020 @ 10:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Elections officials in North Carolina will count absentee ballots mailed in by Nov. 12, nine days after Election Day.
Published: Friday, October 30th, 2020 @ 10:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Supreme Court will decide soon whether N.C. election officials count absentee ballots received by mail between Nov. 7 and Nov. 12.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 @ 3:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Less than two days remain for voters to request a ballot by mail in the 2020 general election.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 12:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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County boards of elections across North Carolina are now contacting voters whose absentee ballot return envelopes were not properly completed to inform them of the steps necessary to ensure their votes are counted.
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 @ 4:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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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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Late last night, merely hours before the review of absentee ballots began, the North Carolina State Board of Elections sent out an email commanding that county boards comply with Director Bell's illegal, unconstitutional memos or be fired.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 @ 8:17 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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A settlement in an election lawsuit strips absentee ballot protections, opening the door for election fraud, one election expert says.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 4:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina voters who vote by mail can now track the status of their absentee ballot with a new online service called BallotTrax.
Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 @ 10:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s 2020 general election began on September 4, when thousands of absentee ballots were sent to voters. Thirty-two ballots (from military or overseas voters) were returned and accepted that same day.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 5:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County Board of Elections Supervisor Kellie Hopkins takes her place in the "What's Happening NOW" to discuss Absentee Ballots in North Carolina vs. Universal Mass Mailing.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 @ 7:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Below is NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley’s Statement regarding the recent court ruling allowing convicted fellows to vote before completing their full sentence.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 @ 5:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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While we are not sure how many people will vote absentee in North Carolina this year, we do know that it will likely be several times larger than in any previous election.
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2020 @ 11:43 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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By state law (GS 163-231(b)(1)), absentee ballots can only be “transmitted by mail or by commercial courier service, at the voter’s expense, or delivered in person, or by the voter’s near relative or verifiable legal guardian.”
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2020 @ 10:51 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Starting today, September 1, 2020, North Carolina voters may request an absentee ballot completely online
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2020 @ 5:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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More than 200,000 North Carolinians have already requested an absentee mail-in ballot for November’s elections
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 @ 1:53 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In this upcoming 2020 Presidential Election, with so many down ballot candidates incredibly important to properly govern our people, the more I continue to consider the Mass Mailing of ballots to these far too many "To Whom it May Concern"s, I am reasonably assured this will be a contested election.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2020 @ 5:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As mail-in absentee ballot requests surge in North Carolina, the State Board of Elections this week released an improved North Carolina Absentee Ballot Request Form for the November 3 election.
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2020 @ 11:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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