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Interest groups have already filed lawsuits to block approval of new redistricting maps for North Carolina. The maps are still in development with several legislative map proposals having been presented to the public in recent hearings.
Published: Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 @ 10:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House Redistricting Committee submitted its proposed state district maps Friday, Oct. 22, after two months of public hearings and open meetings.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When drawing congressional and legislative district maps, can we be assured of fair and impartial elections just because lawmakers didn’t use racial or partisan factors in drawing districts?
Published: Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 @ 8:30 am
By: Tom Campbell
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There is broad agreement that North Carolina is better suited to handle redistricting in a more transparent fashion than a decade ago, but further improvements can be made to the process according to a wide spectrum of speakers at Duke University’s Redistricting and American Democracy two day sympos
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of a joint redistricting committee between the N.C. House and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 10 heard public feedback on new criteria for drawing district maps.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of a joint redistricting committee between the N.C. House and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 10 heard public feedback on new criteria for drawing district maps.
Published: Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 @ 2:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Remarks by President Biden on Protecting the Sacred, Constitutional Right to Vote
Published: Thursday, August 5th, 2021 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Take a deep breath. It’s finally over. Mostly.
Published: Thursday, December 10th, 2020 @ 11:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Baseball fans learn early how to read the most important part of a box score. It’s a skill some N.C. electoral reformers have yet to master.
Published: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 @ 6:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest round in the fight over redistricting has begun in the General Assembly.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2020 @ 12:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Touchscreen voting systems suffer from numerous defects and the State Board of Elections (SBE) should not have approved of their use in North Carolina Elections.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 @ 3:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The first two decades of the 21st century have been bookended by court cases that struck down North Carolina’s legislative maps.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2020 @ 8:09 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Former Vice President Joe Biden rode a big win in South Carolina to a primary surge, highlighted by an outstanding showing during Super Tuesday, a day in which he won Democratic primaries in neighboring North Carolina and Virginia.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 10:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent News & Observer editorial on redistricting claimed that “the numbers (of districts likely to be won by either Republicans or Democrats) are irrelevant if the redistricting process remains — as it has — purely partisan.”
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 4:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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N.C. lawmakers are once again haggling over how to begin drawing new voter maps. This time, North Carolina’s congressional districts are at stake.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2019 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This is the second of a two-part series critiquing several redistricting reform proposals in the North Carolina General Assembly on their adherence to principles of redistricting reform.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 3:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I have written about gerrymandering in these pages before, but the recent Superior Court ruling that the state’s legislative districts constitute an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander makes me want to do it again.
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2019 @ 1:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Defendants in Common Cause v. Lewis spurned plaintiffs’ objections to their new 2020 House election maps, claiming the objections “appear to be the product of the partisan goals of the North Carolina Democratic Party.”
Published: Monday, October 7th, 2019 @ 1:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We've been hearing a lot about "redistricting" lately.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 @ 11:41 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It’s time for a break from “summer camp.”
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina lawmakers have just nine days to draw new voter district maps. They’re off to a rough start.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I remember when the inherent boredom of redistricting was a laugh line.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 @ 12:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Republican-led N.C. General Assembly must draw new state House and Senate district maps, a court has ruled.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2019 @ 2:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Although Cooper’s defenders have tried to suggest otherwise, the governor has essentially issued an ultimatum: no new budget without Medicaid expansion.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 @ 12:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s redistricting trial Common Cause v. Lewis concluded Friday with heightened tensions, a day after the court threw out part of the testimony of one of the General Assembly’s key witnesses.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 @ 9:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As a three-judge panel heard a second week of testimony in Common Cause v. Lewis, defense attorneys and witnesses tried to cast doubt on the ability of statistical analysis to predict how North Carolinians would vote in legislative elections.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The case District of Columbia v. Heller is the landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2008, and written by the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, which finally looked at the roots and origins of the Second Amendment.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 11:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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A court battle over legislative redistricting escalated Tuesday, July 2, into a tug-of-war over records that may or may not be considered public.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 10:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina voters have tried for a long time now to enact a common-sense voter identification law.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 10:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A bipartisan group of state lawmakers Thursday introduced the second of what may be several measures to reform North Carolina's redistricting process.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wednesday, January 9, 2019 one-day session featured the swearing in of all legislators who had not already taken their oaths in local ceremonies.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 @ 9:27 pm
By: S. Henri McClees
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A handful of lawsuits which threatened to upend North Carolina's November elections resolved quietly over the past few days
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislative leaders’ decision to hold secretive budget deliberations was bad politics, and could further motivate angry Democrats to flood the voting booth this fall, political observers say
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2018 @ 7:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you are a political junkie, you follow closely the daily ins and outs of elections and legislation
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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