The North Carolina State Board of Elections is undergoing a leadership change as scrutiny intensifies over Tuesday's razor-thin Republican primary contest between Senate leader Phil Berger and Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page.
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.
At a lengthy hearing on Wednesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted 3-1 that a candidate in the state’s March 3 primary election cannot run on the Republican ticket in the US Senate race.
NCSBE voted 3-2 in favor of using a federal immigration-verification system to help identify non-citizens on the state’s voter rolls.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections split along party lines Wednesday in rejecting Sunday voting for upcoming municipal elections in Davidson and Union counties. The 3-2 Republican majority also approved an update to a plan to address incomplete voter registration records.
As a matter of procedure, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) read over a settlement reached in the case of the Republican National Committee (RNC) v. the NCSBE at their meeting on Friday.
The bill includes changes to ballot-counting timelines, absentee-voting procedures, campaign-finance thresholds, and the authority of the State Board of Elections. It replaces an earlier version of the bill, expanding and clarifying key procedures.
US Chief District Judge Richard Myers will oversee the federal Justice Department’s lawsuit against North Carolina’s State Board of Elections. The suit argues that state election officials violated federal law by failing to maintain accurate voter lists.
After much debate at their meeting on Thursday, the NCSBE voted 3-2 along party lines to recognize the Green Party as a political party in the state.
The Democratic National Committee, North Carolina NAACP, and League of Women Voters of North Carolina all hope to intervene in the US Justice Department’s lawsuit against the state elections board. The suit accuses the elections board of maintaining inaccurate voter rolls in violation of federal law.
A retirees group working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm wants to intervene in the US Justice Department’s lawsuit against North Carolina and its State Board of Elections. The suit accuses the state board of maintaining inaccurate voter rolls.
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