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This was the week when it became clear to anyone paying attention: The GOP’s drive to gerrymander districts in their favor — usually at the cost of minority representation — threatens the long-term fairness of elections.
President Donald Trump publicly endorsed the North Carolina GOP’s latest congressional gerrymander Friday, celebrating a proposed map that would secure Republicans an additional U.S. House seat in 2026 — by further eroding fair representation for Black and Democratic voters. “Thank you to North Carolina’s incredible Republican State Legislators, who just introduced a new, fair, and […]
In red states across the country, GOP lawmakers and officials took a range of steps to move forward with their gerrymanders. Together, the moves suggest that, even leaving the Supreme Court aside, Republicans have abandoned any remaining political or moral qualms about drawing maps that maximize their advantage — with potentially dire consequences for the future of fair elections.
North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers.
North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump.
At Democracy Docket, we pride ourselves on monitoring the voting and democracy landscape — and especially the right’s never-ending effort to undermine fair elections — more closely than just about anyone else.
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.