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Republicans in the General Assembly have contended nonpartisan elections mask important candidate information from the voting public
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2017 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court put a temporary halt to a three-judge panel's order to hold special legislative elections later this year, and the top election official in the N.C. House thinks the justices eventually will toss out the off-year election plan
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 8:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House Elections Committee passed by a 20-8 vote Thursday night a bill that consolidates three state agencies into a new, bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, makes Supreme Court races partisan contests, and amends the Court of Appeals decision-making process
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2016 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gerrymandering is bad. North Carolina needs to reform its process of drawing election maps, a process known as redistricting.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 9:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Verla Insko is hoping to make voter registration in North Carolina as easy as visiting a website.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2016 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two Charlotte media organizations, the Charlotte Observer and WBTV, ran stories last week about a legislator who appears to have made stealth changes to legislation that would possibly benefit some of his contributors
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2016 @ 11:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina is the first state to lose a voter photo ID case and the Republicans in the state legislature were the deciding factor.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 2:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina is the first state to lose a voter photo ID case and the Republicans in the state legislature were the deciding factor.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 2:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Incredible. It is amazing that something that is sooooo common sense is having such difficulty navigating through the conservative revolution
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 8:33 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina voters soon could vote for governor and lieutenant governor as a team under a measure approved Tuesday by the House Elections Committee.
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 @ 8:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would shift next year's North Carolina presidential preference primary from late February to March 8. That chamber also nixed a proposed amendment to the N.C. Constitution that would have required a party's candidates for governor and...
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new rule adopted by the state House could mean that representatives would face fewer surprises at committee meetings, and members of the public with interest in specific legislation also could be better informed.
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Turnout in the Nov. 4 midterm election appeared to rebuff claims that the sweeping 2013 election reform law passed by the General Assembly led to voter suppression.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 12:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bill modifying a variety of election laws could bring campaign finance reporting into the 21st century while limiting the times special local elections could be held.
Published: Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 @ 6:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For all those who scream, "There is no voter fraud in North Carolina!" the silence was deafening after the latest revelation from the State Board of Elections (SBOE) regarding online voter registration during the 2012 election season.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 9:23 am
By: Thom Goolsby
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The terms "voter suppression" and "outrageous" were bandied about during the recent debate over North Carolina's voter ID and election law reforms.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is the state government of North Carolina illegitimate? Based on the volume of emails and Facebook messages I've received lately, liberal politicians and organizations are shopping the idea that the Republican-led legislature and McCrory administration lack the moral authority to enact...
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 5:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Following nearly three years of debate, the state House Wednesday gave its approval to a bill requiring North Carolina voters to provide photo identification...
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 12:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A key House committee gave its blessing to a voter ID bill after grinding through hours of debate on Wednesday.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Members of the House Elections Committee Wednesday received two starkly different versions of the effects of having a voter ID law.
Published: Friday, April 12th, 2013 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Republicans have rolled out their voter identification bill.
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bill passed Wednesday by the House Elections Committee would require local government special elections to be conducted during regularly scheduled general elections and primary elections in even-numbered years.
Published: Monday, April 1st, 2013 @ 8:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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And, now we can add to that list: "infiltrate the State Board of Elections, and break the law."
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 10:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolinians should expect the General Assembly to pass a strict voter ID bill in 2013, and it will be one that will pass federal and judicial scrutiny, a chairman of the House Elections Committee said.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2013 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina State Board of Election (SBE) is really two different organizations. To the public it is the appointed State Board of Elections consisting of political appointees of the governor representing the two major parties in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 @ 10:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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State public campaign funding for key races is drying up, a situation with significant implications for a number of candidates in this coming election season.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 @ 11:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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