The staff working with the tabulator machines wear colored vests indicating the political party they affiliate with to openly display that the process is conducted by a bipartisan group of workers.
More details are emerging in the case of Greensboro’s Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Sunday. Among them, an extensive prior criminal history and evidence that Routh may have waited, hidden along the golf course, for nearly 12 hours ahead of Sunday’s shooting.
The suspect in custody for allegedly attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating shots fired at 1:30 Sunday afternoon at Trump's Palm Beach, Florida golf course as an "attempted assassination." Trump reports through social media that he is safe.
A federal judge has scheduled an Oct. 7 hearing to consider a Libertarian voter’s request for an injunction against North Carolina’s ban on ballot selfies. Susan Hogarth had requested a hearing by Oct. 15 in her lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections. State election officials had opposed an expedited hearing in the case.
This week on the Debrief, the presidential debate puts the candidates in a dead heat in North Carolina, plus there’s a squabble over the lieutenant governor debate.
The Republican National Committee and North Carolina Republican Party have filed their fourth lawsuit against the State Board of Elections in the last three weeks. The latest suit challenges the elections board’s decision to allow University of North Carolina digital identification to be used as voter ID in the upcoming election.
Publications, particularly those local to NC, lacked the basic level of journalistic scrutiny on the story, not bothering to review statutes or see how other organizations register voters.
The North Carolina House voted Wednesday to pass a bill that will clear the waitlist for the state’s voucher program and bring true universal school choice to the state for the first time. The measure, House Bill 10, has one hurdle remaining: A likely veto from Gov. Roy Cooper.
It is time to view the threat to public safety posed by poor border security with Sept. 12 patriotism — unbound by political party or geography and with a commitment to future generations.
Questions are being raised about why State Sen. Rachel Hunt, Mecklenburg, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s lieutenant governor’s race decided to pull out of the only debate scheduled between her and Republican candidate Hal Weatherman.
As soon as election officials in Guilford County got word that new ballots would need to be printed, officials pushed ahead to get prompt ballot approval so the county could place orders before the 99 other counties.
