With just one day to go before election day, here are the latest available numbers. No last-minute rush to request or cast absentee ballots The last day to request an ... Keep Reading
2020 election
How would you grade the media for their election coverage?
The New York Post published a scathing indictment last week on the media coverage of the 2020 election. Yes, the same New York Post that has yet to bow to the censors on Twitter ... Keep Reading
Do you find your eyes contradicting the polls?
There is an interesting post at Powerline titled "My Lying Eyes." It's related to one of the most talked-about topics in politics now—the disconnect many Trump supporters feel ... Keep Reading
Monday election data dump: will early voting continue its downward trend?
Here is data from the seventh week since the start of voting in North Carolina, including the second week of one-stop voting. No last-minute rush to request absentee ... Keep Reading
FACT CHECK: Ad for Democrat candidate for Lt. Governor misleads on teacher pay, tax cut record
Democrat candidate for lieutenant governor, Yvonne Lewis Holley, has served in the North Carolina House of Representatives for four terms. A recent campaign ad touts Holley’s ... Keep Reading
Is Roy Cooper’s State Board of Elections irredeemably racist?
Over the past few weeks, I have seen headlines such as "Black voter's mail-in ballots being rejected at a higher rate, "Black voters are disproportionately having mail ballots ... Keep Reading
Elections board collusive settlement will have a date with the U.S. Supreme Court
The September 22 collusive settlement between SBE Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell and Democratic attorney Marc Elias (the cumulation of a series of Byzantine maneuvers by ... Keep Reading
Skeptical of the polls? The media used to be too
There is little doubt that the 2016 presidential outcome has inflicted some damage on the credibility of political opinion polling. So much so, W. Joseph Campbell recently ... Keep Reading
Monday election data dump: absentee ballot requests plunge as one-stop voting starts
Here is data from the sixth week since the start of voting in North Carolina, including the first week of one-stop voting. Absentee requests per week plunge The total ... Keep Reading
Mixed results in court rulings lets elections board violate 14th Amendment
Judge William Osteen Jr. of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued two orders on the evening of October 14 in the ongoing dispute. While they provided ... Keep Reading
