A Democratic litigator predicted North Carolina will be among a handful of states to turn blue in upcoming elections due to increasing turnout among minority and college-educated voters. Election lawyer Marc Elias made the comments during a digital briefing Tuesday, Jan. 26, sponsored by Third Way,…
North Carolina’s deadline for accepting mail-in absentee ballots in this year’s election finally may be settled at the venue state conservative leaders wanted: the U.S. Supreme Court. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a convoluted opinion the justices must reverse, state legislative leaders…
The State Board of Elections will send voters whose absentee ballots lack a witness signature a new ballot, restoring a process for mail-in votes that was tied up in state and federal courts. Meanwhile, the N.C. Court of Appeals has ended its order blocking other provisions of a state…
The election lawsuit merry-go-round keeps turning, as tens of thousands of North Carolinians cast ballots at early voting sites, and legislative leaders urge the State Board of Elections to “stop this chaos.” The most recent development happened Friday, Oct. 16. N.C. Superior Court Judge Bryan Collins…
A recent attempt to rewrite North Carolina elections law is just one piece of a larger plan to turn the state blue, a panel of experts say. North Carolina is a battleground for a network of national organizations with liberal agendas, said Scott Walter, president of…
A settlement in an election lawsuit strips absentee ballot protections, opening the door for election fraud, one election expert says. Parties in the North Carolina Alliance of Retired Americans v. North Carolina State Board of Elections filed a joint…
Marc Elias, the high-profile Washington, D.C., political operative with a law license, has one goal — getting Democrats elected to office. A crucial 2020 election and coronavirus have Elias believing he’s got an opportunity to put North Carolina in the win column for Democrats with expanded mail voting.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Harris testified Wednesday he warned his father, Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Rev. Mark Harris, it was unwise to hire Bladen County political operative McCrae Dowless. But his parents shunned his advice. Mark Harris is in a legal skirmish to be seated…
The political operative at the heart of the 9th Congressional District scandal won’t tell his story under oath — yet. McCrae Dowless, the main person of interest in an alleged ballot harvesting ring that helped Republican Rev. Mark Harris defeat Democrat Dan McCready in November, appeared…
