Candidate filing for North Carolina’s fraud-scarred 9th U.S. Congressional District will begin next week for a May 14 primary, and the general election is set for Sept. 10. The State Board of Elections approved the special election schedule Monday, March 4, the same day candidate filing began in the 3rd U.S. Congressional District special election...
State elections officials referred four-term state Rep. Rodney Moore, D-Mecklenburg, for investigation and possible prosecution, saying there was “clear and convincing evidence” he failed to report more than $141,000 in election campaign receipts and expenditures. The nine-member Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement voted unanimously Wednesday, Oct. 17, to ask the Mecklenburg County...
The state’s top elections staffer says she sees no problems ahead for North Carolina municipal elections — unless there’s an election protest. There’s also no way to certify the results of this year’s elections under current conditions. Kim Westbrook Strach, executive director of the recently merged N.C. State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, delivered...
State elections board Executive Director Kim Strach, at the request of a federal court panel ruling on the North Carolina’s legislative districts, filed a 16-page report detailing the administrative processes and costs to implement a special legislative election in 2017. Here are some the key elements from the report (link here): A statewide primary for...
If a three-judge federal court panel does not freeze its order to redraw a new congressional election map by Feb. 19 the result would be voter confusion, inability to protect the integrity of the electoral process, suppressed voter and candidate turnout, and more than $12 million of increased taxpayer expenses, according to an affidavit filed...
In a court filing, Gov. Bev Perdue's friend Buzzy Stubbs has provided investigators plenty of justification to expand their inquiry of the governor's flight program.
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue has confirmed that federal investigators are questioning a number of people who were involved with her 2008 gubernatorial campaign. Investigators may be interested in why Perdue waited so long to report and pay for a number of flights, or if the campaign had no intention of paying for them.
I believe Wallace’s explanation that the reason the Perdue team had failed to report the 42 flights was because the campaign kept sloppy records.
I hereby swear not to make any cracks about undercover investigations, strange political bedfellows, or airing dirty linens in public.
