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The Republican-controlled North Carolina House approved two elections bills that would shorten early voting in key contests, make it easier to challenge ballots and reshape how voter disputes are handled — sending the measures to Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.
Since the Trump administration started demanding state voter rolls last year, we’ve tracked the effort more closely than any other news outlet.
That’s what allowed us to produce the reporting we published this week.
A North Carolina Senate committee greenlit new voter suppression measures Tuesday, moving forward a bill that would make it easier to purge voters from the rolls.
The GOP-controlled North Carolina State Board of Elections approved new permanent rules Monday that will make it more difficult for voters to cast their ballots by mail and ensure that they are counted. The change is just the latest attack on voting since Republicans took control of the board last year.
President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday was billed in advance as the moment when he was finally going to provide support for his claims of election theft, and perhaps move to take control of voting once and for all.
The Republican-led North Carolina State Board of Elections approved a plan Thursday to make it significantly easier for their county election officials to throw out votes.
A North Carolina GOP operative has resigned from a state elections oversight role after the State Auditor’s office was caught aggressively attempting to influence how counties picked their early voting locations — a move that drew significant backlash from local officials in both parties.
Acting national intelligence director Bill Pulte picked Christina Norton, known for running the GOP’s 2024 poll watcher program, as his chief of staff.
In the year since it came under Republican control, North Carolina’s state elections board has repeatedly made headlines for decisions that restrict or suppress the vote. But now some Republicans are also pushing back as State Auditor Dave Boliek attempts to exert control over county election boards and tell their members how to vote.
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are trying to ban state election officials from publicly encouraging people to vote, part of a massive proposed overhaul of elections that a state legislative committee approved Tuesday.
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