A bipartisan three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina’s 2018 state constitutional amendments guaranteeing photo identification for voters and lowering the state’s cap on income tax rates. It’s a case that prompted Carolina Journal’s “Extreme Injustice” podcast.
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.
State and national Republican groups and the North Carolina State Board of Elections have reached a deal ending a lawsuit over voter identification and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s digital ID. The elections board agreed not to accept any "electronic identification" as a voter ID unless the General Assembly approves a new law permitting that type of ID.
Critics challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law in federal court are asking the judge to take note of a recent ruling from an Arizona election case. Voter ID supporters and opponents have been waiting for a decision in the North Carolina case since a trial last May.
The real threat to democracy isn’t Griffin. It’s an election system run by unelected bureaucrats who believe they can pick and choose which laws to follow.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a stay Friday in Republican groups’ lawsuit challenging more than 60,000 ballots cast in the Nov. 5 election. The court order arrived as GOP state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin pursues a separate legal action challenging the same ballots. Election officials requested the stay in Kivett v. North Carolina State Board of Elections, a suit filed on Dec. 31 by the Wake County and North Carolina Republican Party organizations, the Republican National Committee, and two individual voters.
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.
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