Amending NC’s constitution is a serious matter
Constitutionalizing existing laws that face no imminent repeal is not principled constitutional design; it is entrenchment for its own sake, aimed at making it harder for a future legislature to govern.
Access and enforcement can co-exist, and the State Board of Elections should align its rules with the statute.
After the public comment period closes, the NCSBE will decide whether to approve the amendments before sending them to the Rules Review Commission.
The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is urging the state’s second-highest court to overturn trial court decisions upholding two state constitutional amendments from 2018.
Critics who have been challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law for more than seven years in federal court are appealing the latest ruling upholding the law.
A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s voter identification law nearly two years after holding a trial in a lawsuit challenging the ID requirement.
At its meeting on Wednesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted unanimously to reject a rulemaking petition to amend the Reasonable Impediment Form regarding provisional voting.
If questions arise — from extraordinary matters prompted by Hurricane Helene to more technical concerns about election procedures — our state has a process in place to address them.
US District Judge Loretta Biggs could decide for a second time to block a photo identification requirement for North Carolina's elections.
A federal magistrate judge has issued an order limiting the number of new witnesses and documents plaintiffs can use during next week's trial challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law. US District Judge Loretta Biggs is scheduled to hold a bench trial starting Monday in Winston-Salem.
It all started over a decade ago. The year was 2013, and North Carolina inaugurated its first Republican governor in decades. He would work alongside a majority-Republican state legislature, the first double Republican leadership in over a century, after nearly 150 years of domination by Democrats. Soon thereafter, reports started to emerge, murmurs that within...
With no real evidence of problems, voter ID supporters rely on dubious arguments against a common-sense measure.