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North Carolina Elections Board Settles With RNC Over Noncitizen Voting in a Win for Election Integrity

NC election officials approve new rules for noncitizen voter challenges

Elections officials in North Carolina counties may soon be able to challenge “potential noncitizens” on their voter rolls, a move that detractors say will burden citizens called to...

NC elections board considers new rules for photo ID, polling places

A new proposal would make it easier for North Carolina county boards of election to throw out ballots of people who don’t show photo ID when they vote.  Under the proposal, county...

Bring out your dead! Elections boards to remove 34,000 deceased voters

The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) approved rules for removing non-citizens from voter rolls on a 3-2 party-line vote in April. Part of that process involves matchin...

State Board of Elections proposes changes to recount, voter ID rules

This is the first a two-part series on proposed election rules changes. Part two will cover proposed rules for absentee voting and voting sites. The North Carolina State Board of E...

State Board of Elections proposes rules changes for absentee voting and voting sites

This is the second of a two-part series on proposed election rules changes. Part one covered proposed rules for recounts and voter ID. The North Carolina State Board of Elections (...

Election shenanigans highlight need for performance audits

Recent reports of election administration problems in North Carolina over the past several elections are a wake-up call. We should join the growing number of states that conduct el...

North Carolina Court Rules Democrat State Board Violated the State Constitution by Allowing ‘Never Residents’ to Vote in...

The Republican National Committee is celebrating a major victory for clean elections after a Wake County Superior Court judge ruled that North Carolina’s State Board of Elections v...

Judicial Retention Elections in North Carolina

A colleague recently came into my office carrying Volume 3 of the General Statutes of North Carolina Annotated by Lexis Nexis (what we attorneys call “the green book”) with a […] R...

GOP Secures Agreement From North Carolina Election Officials To Clean Up Voter Rolls

Elections officials will be required to use jury duty records to identify and remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.

North Carolina Court of Appeals rejects ‘fair elections’ lawsuit

The North Carolina Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit brought by 11 voters challenging partisan gerrymandering in the state, upholding a lower court decision that the objections...

NC Democratic Party leader Anderson Clayton runs to the problem – engaging voters

Anderson Clayton, head of the North Carolina Democratic Party, has ambitious goals for a party eager for success after losing control of the state legislature in 2010 and the state...

Republican lawmakers revive effort to elect NC State Board of Education members

Republican lawmakers will once again attempt to change how North Carolina governs public schools, reviving a yearslong debate over who should control education policy in the state....

Republican NC senators propose cuts to the state’s most popular voting method

A state Senate bill filed this week would cut North Carolina’s early voting period by a week, slicing time from the method voters use most in general elections.  Senate Bill 1084 w...

Old North State Report – April 24, 2026

Upcoming Events April 27 Thinkers Lunch featuring Carter Wrenn and Gary Pearce / Insights and Observations on the State's Current Political Landscape May 6 North Carolina Chambe...

Amendment to elect State Board of Education members moves forward in NC House

A Republican proposal that would remove the governor’s power to appoint State Board of Education members advanced out of a House committee on Tuesday amid pushback from Democrats t...

As NC’s US Senate race heats up, GOP lawmakers launch probe of Dem candidate Roy Cooper

Just months before voters cast their ballots in the 2026 U.S. Senate election, North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly announced a committee to investigate the Democratic...

The NC elections board hired a lawyer who was also suing it

State elections director Sam Hayes hired one of North Carolina Republicans’ go-to lawyers to defend the state Board of Elections in a lawsuit this year, even though that lawyer was...

Heat Turns Up on NC Democrat Senate Nominee After New Database Highlights Criminals Granted Early Release

Supreme Court ruling limiting Voting Rights Act condemned by NC Democrats, lauded by Republicans

North Carolina Democrats mourned Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling severely limiting the protections of the Voting Rights Act, while Republicans celebrated it as a much-needed...

Proposed constitutional amendment would make the state board of education elected

Republican lawmakers are advancing a bill to take away the governor's appointments to the board, and instead make them elected positions.

Flurry of new NC constitutional amendments piling up for November ballot

North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders filed two new constitutional amendments Thursday, aiming to load up this fall’s ballot with proposals tailored to attract conservati...

Will map mayhem decide NC’s midterms? One national pollster says not if Democrats stay on message.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a late April decision weakening the Voting Rights Act, several Republican-led states have been rushing to redraw congressional maps ahead of...

Analysis: NC lawmakers consider six more constitutional amendments as midterms loom

How do you get Republican voters to the polls in a difficult political climate? Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are hoping a slate of up to seven constitutional amendments m...