The chairman of the Wake County Republican Party has filed a complaint with the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement alleging Chairman Andy Penry, a Democrat, has broken the law. The complaint demands Penry’s removal from office. The complaint comes not only as the board has refused to certify the Rev. Mark Harris,...
With the November election over, lawmakers must reconfigure the Bipartisan Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement to comply with a Superior Court order. The order was issued in October in the Cooper v. Berger case, which revolves around the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Board of Election and Ethics Enforcement. Superior Court Judges Todd Burke and...
Several counties hard hit by Hurricane Florence can’t send absentee ballots to military and overseas voters for the Nov. 6 election. So the Bipartisan State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement is taking on that task. “We are assessing emergency options, and our team is committed to assisting county boards and voters in the affected...
According to a new Civitas Institute poll, 70 percent of likely North Carolina voters disapprove of the protesters toppling Silent Sam, while only 22 percent endorse it.
In a rare show of unity, the state elections board unanimously agreed during a Sept. 7 teleconference to challenge federal subpoenas of millions of voter records. The board said state law barred it from sharing information from individual voters to the extent requested in the subpoenas. The office of U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon hasn’t said...
A three-judge Superior Court panel has ordered state elections officials to delay printing fall election ballots until Sept. 1. The ruling was announced Wednesday, Aug. 15, after judges heard back-to-back arguments in two cases seeking to block proposed constitutional amendments from appearing on the ballot. Gov. Roy Cooper filed one, the N.C. Conference of NAACP...
A Wake County Superior Court judge wants state Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin to appoint a three-judge panel to hear challenges by Gov. Roy Cooper and two left-leaning advocacy groups about four proposed constitutional amendments. Judge Paul Ridgeway said he was confident Martin would appoint the panel, which has the authority to review “facial”...
The N.C. Conference of the NAACP and Clean Air Carolina are asking Wake County Superior Court to strip four proposed constitutional amendments from the Nov. 6 general election ballot. The lawsuit argues the amendments are vague, incomplete, and misleading — and that the General Assembly itself is an unconstitutionally constituted usurper body that can’t propose...
Editor’s note: This story was updated after initial publication to correct the name of VR Systems and to include updated information from the elections board. We regret the error. North Carolina will spend $10.9 million to modernize election systems and tighten the security of voters’ information. Under the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2018, the Bipartisan...
Republicans used their supermajority status to override a pair of Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes of legislation intended to, in the GOP’s view, inject fairness and security into elections. The vetoes also disqualified three Constitution Party candidates in the process. “It’s a terrible precedent for the General Assembly to change the rules of an election in...
A last-minute change to Senate Bill 325 — which originally would have lowered state personal and business income taxes — instead became the vehicle to change early voting hours and days. The move led to a dustup among Republicans and Democrats on the state elections board, which played out in an emergency meeting by teleconference...
