News

Drama likely in legislative primaries, Kappler says

The 2018 legislative primary, set for May 8, should provide more drama than usual. That’s the initial assessment of Jonathan Kappler, executive director of the North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation, a nonpartisan group that tracks elections and campaigns. More than 500 candidates filed for the General Assembly, with Democrats and Republicans fielding hopefuls effectively in all...

Dan Way
News

Democrats and Republicans file for every legislative seat, but are voters energized?

It’s being called a historic milestone. But just because every state legislative seat will be contested in this year’s general election for the first time in memory doesn’t mean most races will be competitive. “Not every candidate is created equal, nor is every campaign created equal, though you have to have players on the field...

Dan Way
Opinion

Living with election maps drawn by judges, statisticians 

Courts have been dealing with gerrymandering — the redrawing of legislative district lines to further a particular political interest — for more than 50 years. Since a series of landmark cases in the 1990s, including some from North Carolina, federal judges have established and refined the principle that legislative redistricting cannot be guided by racial considerations. Determinations that...

Andy Taylor
News

NCGOP: State elections board should recount Durham ballots

State Sen. Bob Rucho, chairman of the Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee, on Wednesday afternoon called Gov. Pat McCrory’s challenge to the election results, which now show him trailing by more than 10,000 votes, a principled stand to ensure North Carolina voters that elections are fair, honest, and transparent. “I applaud Gov. McCrory for standing up...

Dan Way

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