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The North Carolina State Board of Elections announced Friday that they will send out absentee ballots without Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name by next week, despite a tight turnaround time.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the North Carolina Republican Party filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the State Election Board for allowing University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill students and employees to use digital IDs as a valid form of photo identification for in-person voting.
Republicans are suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections over its guidance to county election boards that an absentee ballot may be counted even if it isn’t submitted in a sealed container-return envelope.
The Republican National Committee sent letters to the secretaries of six swing states, urging them to monitor Vot-ER, a civic health organization helping to register voters in healthcare settings.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed another lawsuit in North Carolina on Friday targeting its voter rolls, claiming the State Board of Elections allowed noncitizens to register to vote.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed two new anti-voting lawsuits this week in Michigan and North Carolina.
A law requiring North Carolinians to reside in the state for at least 30 days prior to the election in which they seek to vote will remain in place after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the rule violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and U.S. Constitution.
A panel of North Carolina state court judges rejected legal challenge to the state’s legislative and congressional maps enacted last year by the GOP Legislature.
The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will not reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision allowing North Carolina’s new state Senate districts to remain in place for the 2024 elections.
Trial begins Monday in a federal case that will determine whether North Carolina’s law requiring voters to show photo IDs violates the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution.