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North Carolina’s election began on September 4, with county boards of elections distributing absentee ballots and accepting voted ballots online from military and overseas voters. County boards accepted ten ballots…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s fight to withdraw his name from the ballot in 2024 exposed the need to reform North Carolina’s candidate withdrawal and absentee ballot deadline laws. Two years…
A national think tank recently rated all fifty states on election policy. North Carolina scored relatively well, but it was among the states that still have “room for improvement.” There…
House Bill 958, Election Law Changes, appeared to be moving quickly through the General Assembly last year. It featured a host of election reforms, as seen in John Locke Foundation…
Cover photo: Official photo of 4th District Congresswoman Valerie Foushee. Foushee is in a competitive primary. North Carolina completed early voting on Saturday, February 28. Here are a few early…
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) has announced a set of proposed rules for removing non-citizens from voter rolls: The State Board of Elections invites the public to…
Although election fraud can take various forms, voting by mail (known as absentee voting in North Carolina) is uniquely vulnerable to fraud. When law enforcement and election officials fail to…
Election security has lately been associated with conservatives. Nevertheless, there are progressives who share concerns about election integrity. One of those is Free Speech for People, a left-wing organization that…
Cover photo: Madison County Board of Elections member Dyatt Smathers stands outside the former early voting site in Hot Springs, North Carolina, October, 2024. While government actions after Hurricane Helene…
A Canadian voted in several recent elections in North Carolina, demonstrating continued weakness in our state’s system of citizenship verification for voting. There are ways to strengthen citizenship verification. The…
The State Board of Elections (SBE) has released the mid-year semi-annual campaign finance reports from the two presumptive major party candidates for the 2026 North Carolina Supreme Court race, incumbent…
On July 16, I wrote: “House Bill 958 will improve state election law and practices. Some changes and additions could make it even better.” A proposed committee substitute (PCS, basically…