A day after issuing a ruling that the North Carolina State Board of Elections violated its own rules and must conduct a new hearing into local elections board members, an administrative law judge issued a new order striking her own ruling.
North Carolina ballot access ended for the Justice for All Party when presidential candidate Cornel West failed to secure at least 2% of the vote in the 2024 election. Yet lawyers who helped JFA secure ballot access last year want to continue their legal fight against new state election rules.
NC's failure to adhere to HAVA's requirements for registering voters is now under scrutiny, due to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday against the state and the NC State Board of Elections by the US Department of Justice.
On Thursday, Sam Hayes officially became executive director for the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE). He replaces Karen Brinson Bell, whose term expired the same day.
A nonpartisan national election-integrity watchdog gave the NC State Board of Elections a grade of “C” for multiple failures undermining voter confidence with administering the 2024 election.
For the first time since the Gov. Pat McCrory administration, the NC State Board of Elections officially has a Republican majority.
On Wednesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted mostly along party lines to reject election protests from Republican Jefferson Griffin and three legislative candidates.
With all 100 counties completing their canvasses, the NCSBE confirmed that 5.7 million ballots were cast, a 73% turnout and the most ballots ever cast in a North Carolina election. Of those, nearly 300,000 were absentee by mail, while over 4 million votes came from early voting, reflecting the state's high voter engagement.
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.
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.
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