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NCSBE to upgrade software, cautions elections officials on social media use

The North Carolina State Board of Elections launched a new effort to modernize the state's data system and said there are 75,000 voters remaining on the Registration Repair List, the ongoing work on tens of thousands of incomplete voter registrations across the state.

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Judge permits email for NC trial subpoena of election integrity activist Mitchell

A federal judge will allow left-of-center groups to use email to serve a trial subpoena for election integrity activist Cleta Mitchell. The judge denied the groups’ request to compel Mitchell’s appearance at a trial scheduled later this month in Winston-Salem.

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Election integrity activist Mitchell wants to avoid testifying in NC trial

North Carolina-based election integrity activist Cleta Mitchell is urging a federal judge to reject requests from left-of-center groups to compel her testimony next month at a trial in Winston-Salem. Mitchell filed court documents Thursday suggesting that she has no relevant information in the case challenging a 2023 state law. It changed rules linked to same-day voter registration, or SDR.

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Griffin opposes latest requests from Riggs, elections board in Supreme Court dispute

Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin urges that court not to step back into his election dispute with the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Democrat Allison Riggs. Griffin filed paperwork Friday morning asking the high court to allow a state Appeals Court decision in the case to stand.

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