N.C. legislative leaders have submitted their final written arguments against a lawsuit that would give unaffiliated voters a right to sit on the state elections board. Lawmakers are asking U.S. District Judge William Osteen to dismiss the case.
If N.C. Supreme Court Justice Sam "Jimmy" Ervin IV loses his re-election bid, he can place some of the blame on Sabra Faires.
The Democrat-controlled N.C. State Board of Elections overruled the Currituck County elections board Friday and kept a Democrat’s campaign alive in state Senate District 3. The 3-2 party-line vote from the state elections board responded to a protest filed by Republican Sen. Bobby Hanig that his Democrat opponent was ineligible to run in District 3....
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the controversy surrounding proposed new rules for N.C. election observers and poll workers. Kokai offered these comments during the Sept. 2, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein has asked a federal judge to block her own ruling against Stein in his challenge of a state law against campaign lies. The attorney general cites newly released evidence from a state elections board investigation of his 2020 campaign.
No one should expect a government agency to act in “bad faith.” That’s why it should concern us when a U.S. District Court judge uses those words in connection with the N.C. State Board of Elections. The headline emerging from Judge James Dever’s courtroom Friday evening was his decision to guarantee Green Party candidates a...
Left-of-center activist group Common Cause has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law that blocks unaffiliated voters from serving on the N.C. State Board of Elections. The suit, Common Cause v. Moore, asks a federal court to declare the law “unconstitutional and void.” Common Cause also asks the court to block the N.C. General...
Regardless of the merits of his case, Attorney General Josh Stein has used questionable tactics in challenging a state law linked to political speech.
The N.C. Green Party has filed an emergency motion in federal court in its bid to gain access to the state’s election ballot this year. The motion filed Thursday contends that the N.C. State Board of Elections has failed to provide a legal reason for excluding Greens from the ballot. The group seeks a preliminary...
Matthew Hoh, U.S. Senate candidate from the N.C. Green Party, discusses the party’s lawsuit against the N.C. State Board of Elections. The board refused to certify the Greens as an official political party in North Carolina.
The N.C. State Board of Elections is proceeding with the “status quo” of allowing felons with no active prison time to vote in November’s elections. Lawyers working for the state board shared that fact in a filing Friday with the N.C. Supreme Court.
