The new State Board of Elections announced the long-awaited evidentiary hearing for the contested 9th Congressional District will take place Monday, Feb. 18, in Raleigh. Board spokesman Patrick Gannon said Monday the hearing will convene at 10 a.m. at the State Bar headquarters in Raleigh. The hearing is expected to last two days, but the...
Gov. Roy Cooper named three Democrats and two Republicans Thursday to the newly constituted State Board of Elections. The board members’ first big test will be the disputed election in the 9th Congressional District. The new board elected Democrat Bob Cordle of Charlotte chairman in conference call a couple of hours after Cooper’s announcement. Along...
[UPDATED 4:15 p.m. to include Democratic nominees.] The N.C. Republican Party has submitted a list of four nominees for the new State Board of Elections, from which Gov. Roy Cooper will select two. The N.C. Democratic Party offered its list Thursday afternoon, and one prominent name won’t be among its four nominees. Former elections board...
Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Mark Harris took a big swing, and he missed. Tuesday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway rejected Harris’ petition to force the State Board of Elections to certify him the winner of the hotly disputed 9th U.S. Congressional District election. In an order he read from the bench, Ridgeway questioned the...
Republicans and Democrats held dueling news conferences Monday afternoon, trying to sway public opinion on the question of whether GOP Rep.-elect Mark Harris should be seated in the state’s 9th U.S. Congressional District. More importantly, the parties will make their case in an actual courtroom Tuesday, as they attempt to persuade Wake County Superior Court...
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. In this past November’s referendum, the state’s residents approved a voter ID amendment to...
Republican Rep.-elect Mark Harris says he expects a state court will certify him the winner of the disputed 9th U.S. Congressional District election. He will go to Washington despite what he considers political interference by a Democratic-controlled state elections board to scuttle his victory. In an exclusive interview Friday with Carolina Journal, Harris said he...
Republican Rep-elect Mark Harris will get his day in court. Thursday, Jan. 3, he filed a petition in Wake County Superior Court seeking to declare him the victor in the 9th U.S. Congressional District election. Harris cites a recent precedent by the same court to support his demand. Late Thursday afternoon, Superior Court Administrator Kellie...
The campaign of the Rev. Mark Harris, Republican nominee for the 9th U.S. Congressional District, Thursday will ask Wake County Superior Court to certify his victory in the 2018 election. In a statement released Wednesday night, the Harris campaign said the State Board of Elections hasn’t presented evidence of enough questionable votes to change the outcome...
Carolina Journal will post the most recent developments in the continuing dispute over the outcome of the 2018 race for North Carolina’s 9th U.S. Congressional District between Republican Rev. Mark Harris, Democrat Dan McCready, and Libertarian Jeff Scott. This story will be updated frequently. For CJ’s full coverage of the 9th District controversy, visit here....
In a letter sent Sunday to Gov. Roy Cooper’s office, the N.C. Republican Party said it won’t be “bullied” into adding members to an interim state elections board the party considers unconstitutional — and that a legal interpretation Cooper’s own attorney sought prevents the governor from picking a temporary board. Cooper said he would appoint an...
