This article was made possible by research by Carlos Massana and Katie Wooten. The NC State Board of Elections is assuming that mail voting will account for 30-40% of all ... Keep Reading
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State elections board seeks sweeping powers to disregard election law
On May 11, I noted that the State Board of Elections (SBE) was proposing to expand the emergency powers of SBE Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell and that she “may be tempted to ... Keep Reading
The General Assembly should provide election funds but also demand accountability from state elections board
The State Board of Elections is seeking up to $4.5 million from the General Assembly in order to match $22.5 million in federal grants. The General Assembly should exercise ... Keep Reading
Holding elections boards accountable is crucial to keeping elections clean
Incompetence or malfeasance by county or precinct election officials must be exposed to maintain the integrity of our elections The State Board of Elections must be held ... Keep Reading
Democrats on NC State Board of Elections protect their own against ethics complaint
Despite seeing evidence that members of the Bladen County Board of Elections may have violated a state law requiring that they remain neutral regarding candidates for public ... Keep Reading
Edgecombe, Nash officials put their thumbs on the scale in Rocky Mount mayoral race (updated)
(10-18-2019 Update below) An early voting location opened in Rocky Mount today for a mayoral runoff election, but most city residents cannot legally vote there. How can that ... Keep Reading
Gov. Cooper demonstrates again what a sham so-called nonpartisan redistricting would be
The base political hackery that is Gov. Roy Cooper’s treatment of the NC State Board of Elections (SBE) continues apace. Gov. Cooper has lost three SBE chairs since December. ... Keep Reading
A joke about the sex lives of cows gives NC a final chance to mandate hand-marked paper ballots
Electronic touchscreen voting systems are vulnerable to malfunction and hacking North Carolina has had its own problems with touchscreen voting systems, causing thousands of ... Keep Reading
The chaos that is Roy Cooper’s Board of Elections
North Carolina State Board of Elections chairman Bob Cordle resigned yesterday after public outcry over a joke involving cattle sexuality he told to a conference of hundreds of ... Keep Reading
State Board of Elections Not Happy that Legislature Wants to Expand Early Voting
I received notice, via email, of an emergency meeting of the N.C. State Board of Elections (SBE) this morning at 10:42 a.m. The meeting was scheduled for 11:15 a.m. Barely 30 ... Keep Reading
