A retirees group working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm is raising concerns about a plan that could resolve a month-old legal dispute between the US Justice Department and North Carolina election officials. A court filing this week suggested that the legal action threatens voting rights.
Led by North Carolina’s US Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-11, the Equal Representation Act would exclude noncitizens from being counted in determining the apportionment of representatives and Electoral Votes.
On Monday Nov. 7, U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of North Carolina federal court Michael Easley announced that an assistant U.S. Attorney, Susan Menzer, would serve as a district election officer (DEO). Menzer would oversee the district’s response to complaints regarding “election day complaints of voting rights concerns, threats of violence to election officials...
Legislators attempted to remove the literacy test from the constitution, but voters rejected its removal in 1970.
Advocates of felon voting in North Carolina are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in their lawsuit as early as August. The request arrived in a motion filed Friday at the state’s highest court. A final decision in the case, Community Success Initiative v. Moore, could add 56,000 felons to the state’s voting rolls.
There have been several attempts to try to repeal the literacy test since then, although none have made it to a vote of the people.
North Carolina’s legislative and congressional districts are ensnared in several court fights, and a conference sponsored by Common Cause examined a host of issues surrounding those battles. But the conference, at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy in early March, focused on raising public awareness of perceived problems surrounding gerrymandering — and encouraging even more...
KINSTON — The panel of three judges in the appeals court concluded that plaintiff John Nix could suffer a loss if he is forced to run as a candidate in partisan elections because Democrats in Kinston tend to vote along party lines. The panel said the lawsuit must proceed.
