By Rick Henderson Carolina Journal News Service Fewer than 400 votes. That’s how much N.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby leads Chief Justice Cheri Beasley as county elections boards completed their canvasses earlier this week. The State Board of Elections website sh
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A statewide recount of more than five million ballots cast in North Carolina’s Supreme Court chief justice contest will begin later this week. The recount likely will take several days in some counties, and county boards of elections must complete their recounts by Wednesday,
President Donald Trump leads Democrat Joe Biden by 76,701 votes with 100% of the precincts counted. According to the N.C. State Board of Elections website, there were approximately 117,000 outstanding absentee ballots as of 7:30 p.m. on Election Day. The NCSBE website adds that this number do
By Rick Henderson , Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — North Carolina’s deadline for accepting mail-in absentee ballots in this year’s election finally may be settled at the venue state conservative leaders wanted: the U.S. Supreme Court. The 4th U.S. Circuit Co
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the State Board of Elections’ attempt to rewrite N.C. elections law. The board had tried to use a state-level lawsuit settlement to change absentee ballot rules. U.S. District Court Judge James Dever issued a temporary restraining order on Saturday, Oct.
by Lindsay Marchello and Rick Henderson, Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — Illegally moving the goalposts. Intentionally violating North Carolinians’ civil rights. They’re the upshot of federal lawsuits filed separately on Saturday, Sept. 26, by Republican leaders in the N.C. Gen
by Lindsay Marchello, Carolina Journal News Service Fewer than six weeks from the 2020 general election, two of the five members of the State Board of Elections walked off the job. Republicans are disgusted. They say they were misled by information from the board. Its staff. State Attorney G
by Rick Henderson, Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — The day after the state announced a settlement with Democratic super-litigator Marc Elias likely gutting absentee ballot protections, the State Board of Elections’ two Republican members resigned. They suggested they were tricked int
by Lindsay Marchello, Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — A settlement in an election lawsuit strips absentee ballot protections, opening the door for election fraud, one election analyst says. Parties in the North Carolina Alliance of Retired Americans v. North Carolina State Boa
by Lindsay Marchello Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Reopen the schools: Five parents are challenging Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ decision to start the
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director of the State Board of Elections, on Friday issued an emergency order that a press release says will protect voters from disease and reduce the likelihood of long lines and crowds at voting sites during the 2020 general election. The order imp
