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New Carolina Journal Online features
Carolina Journal Online reports on key election results from Tuesday night. Rick Henderson highlights key results in federal races, including the battle for North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes. John Trump…
Elections & Public Integrity
Appeals Court rules against Wake County government embezzler in retirement dispute
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled against former Wake County Register of Deeds Laura Riddick in her fight to maintain government retirement benefits. Riddick…
Elections & Public Integrity
Election Day 1920
One hundred years and one day ago, North Carolinians went to the polls to choose the Ohioan that would become the next president of the United States. There was no…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Why are the Democratic Party’s lawyers trying to stop a county election board from following the law?
The Democrats' lawyers admit those ballots that were possessed by “someone who was not authorized to possess the ballot” — a clear violation of the law, and a Class I…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Bidenomics should worry us all
Editors at Issues and Insights share their concerns about the Democratic presidential nominee’s tax proposals. Facing perhaps their important election ever, Americans have much to worry about: Urban riots and…
Elections & Public Integrity
Win or lose, Trump won’t disappear
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist delivers some bad news to anti-Trumpers inside and outside the Republican Party. For weeks now, the mainstream media has been telling us how Trump’s…
Elections & Public Integrity
The economic argument versus the COVID-19 argument
James Antle of the Washington Examiner focuses on the major-party presidential candidates’ closing pleas to voters. President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are making their closing arguments to voters,…
Elections & Public Integrity
Some voters are just venting
Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review Online explores the motivations of some angry voters. Remember George H. W. Bush’s “thousand points of light”? Or Bill Clinton’s “bridge to the 21st…
Law & Public Safety
Exploring the political left’s Supreme Court anger
Jack Butler writes for National Review Online about the source of the political left’s anger toward the U.S. Supreme Court. When Joe Biden finally answered, after several weeks of hemming…
Elections & Public Integrity
2020 Election Ripe With Confusion & Contradictory Election Rules
This year’s election cycle has been like no other. Polling places are socially distanced, an unprecedented number of absentee ballots have been submitted, and hundreds of lawsuits have been filed.…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on record turnout for N.C. voters before Election Day. The Daily Journal explains how a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision paves the way…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What I’m watching election night
After months of anticipation, piles of money spent, endless TV commercials watched and too many visits from candidates to count, the 2020 election is finally here. Several of my colleagues…