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Dallas Woodhouse tried to cut early voting in North Carolina ahead of the 2016 election.
Voting rights groups in North Carolina are asking a federal court to compel election-denying lawyer Cleta Mitchell to testify in their challenge to a voter suppression law they say was designed to keep young people from voting.
A Republican member of North Carolina’s elections board sang the praises of bipartisanship at a U.S. Congressional hearing on elections Tuesday, despite working in recent months to shift the state’s voting rules toward the GOP.
At a hearing of the Elections Subcommittee of the House Administration Committee on how election officials can respond to natural disasters, Stacey Eggers IV noted how important it was that the board acted in a bipartisan manner after western North Carolina was hit by Hurricane Helene a month before the 2024 election.
98,000 voters are at risk of disenfranchisement under the proposed deal.
The Trump administration is asking select states to help “soft launch” the latest new feature of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) revamped citizenship verification program.
PILF recently sent letters to Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Democrats are ready to pull the alarm. A forum on voter threats to fair elections, held Wednesday by Senate Democrats and headlined by former Attorney General Eric Holder and North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs warned about a coordinated attack on American democracy, while insisting that it hasn’t succeeded yet, and that elections still […]
North Carolina election officials on Monday banned a digital form of in-person voter identification for students and employees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
North Carolina formally launched a project Thursday that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters, despite pushback from national Democrats.
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