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North Carolina election officials took the first step to comply with the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order — even as the state fights to block the order in federal court.
As President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) ramps up its campaign to interfere in the midterms, no news outlet is keeping a closer eye on its plans than Democracy Docket.
North Carolina’s state board of elections once again refused to provide an accessible early voting location at North Carolina A&T State University, the nation’s largest historically Black college or university.
A disgraced GOP operative who resigned from his North Carolina election oversight role in July was a driving force behind efforts to curtail voting opportunities in the state, local election administrators suggested Thursday.
Chick-fil-A isn’t open on Sundays, so polls shouldn’t be either. That was one reason a GOP county board member in North Carolina offered for scaling back weekend voting during a heated North Carolina State Board of Elections meeting Thursday.
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein killed a sweeping GOP elections bill that would have shortened early voting, extended the time period to challenge votes and expanded voter roll maintenance.
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.