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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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The public comment period runs to July 5
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 4:09 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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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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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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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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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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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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The State Board of Elections has learned that a voter advocacy group mailed about 80,000 absentee ballot request forms to North Carolina residents with voters’ information already filled out on the forms.
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2020 @ 12:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republicans on Tuesday, June 2, amended a bill to tighten oversight of absentee ballots and address possible voter fraud in the Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee.
Published: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 @ 7:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections invites members of the public to comment on the proposed text of an amendment to a temporary rule pertaining to the photo ID requirements for absentee ballots.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 5:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday paused the preparation of ballots for the November 6 general election as a result of legal challenges to proposed constitutional amendments
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2018 @ 6:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Following almost a month of Durham County refusing to allow the public to view the absentee ballot envelopes, which are by law public record, the Durham County Board of Elections finally informed the NCGOP legal counsel on Wednesday that they would be willing to cooperate.
Published: Friday, December 2nd, 2016 @ 6:32 pm
By: Russell Allen
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Formal protests are being filed to challenge potentially fraudulent absentee ballots cast for Roy Cooper and other Democrats in 11 additional counties.
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2016 @ 5:36 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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A formal protest has been filed with the Bladen County Board of Elections to challenge several hundred apparently fraudulent absentee ballots cast for Roy Cooper and other Democrats in Bladen County.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 @ 12:35 am
By: McCrory Communications
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