Critics challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law in federal court are asking the judge to take note of a recent ruling from an Arizona election case. Voter ID supporters and opponents have been waiting for a decision in the North Carolina case since a trial last May.
The span of early voting in North Carolina could be limited to just a week ahead of Election Day if a new proposal makes headway in the state legislature this session.
The three-judge panel overseeing a legal dispute over two 2018 North Carolina state constitutional amendments granted motions Monday helping both sides in the case. One amendment placed a photo identification requirement for voters into the state’s governing document. The other lowered the state’s cap on income tax rates from 10% to 7%.
A recent headline in a major North Carolina newspaper offers a misleading take on the state's photo voter identification requirement.
A three-judge panel spent two hours Thursday listening to arguments for and against ending a six-yard-old legal challenge to two North Carolina state constitutional amendments. One amendment guarantees a photo identification requirement for voters. The other lowered the state’s cap on income tax rates.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s digital identification cannot be used as voter ID in North Carolina’s election this fall. A unanimous three-judge appellate panel issued on Friday afternoon a temporary injunction and an order called a writ of supersedeas. The writ blocks a lower court order that would have allowed state election officials to count the digital UNC ID as a valid voter ID.
Critics of two state constitutional amendments North Carolina voters approved in 2018 oppose state legislative leaders' latest request in a six-year-old legal battle. Lawmakers have asked a three-judge panel to end the case involving voter ID and income taxes.
Mail-in ballot requests have dropped by over 80% in North Carolina since 2020, yet more young adults have requested mail-in ballots than ever before, according to recent data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
State and national Republican groups are turning to the North Carolina Court of Appeals to block the use of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's digital identification as voter ID in this fall’s election. The Republican National Committee and North Carolina Republican Party filed a petition seeking a temporary stay and temporary injunction.
A Wake County Superior Court judge has rejected Republican groups’ request for a temporary restraining order against North Carolina’s state elections board. GOP critics wanted to block election officials from counting the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's digital identification as a valid voter ID for the fall election.
The Democratic National Committee and a group working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm both hope to intervene in Republicans’ challenge of newly approved voter identification for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. State elections officials have approved UNC digital IDs to serve as voter IDs for the upcoming election.
