The empty congressional office of the 9th District of North Carolina brings to mind other close congressional elections in the past. In 1984, former Harris Teeter executive Republican Alex “Landslide” McMillan defeated Democrat D.G. Martin […]
CHARLOTTE — The GOP candidate in a disputed North Carolina congressional race said in an interview aired Friday that it was his decision to hire an operative who is now a person of interest in […]
RALEIGH — An evidentiary hearing on allegations of absentee ballot fraud in a North Carolina congressional district election has been rescheduled.The N.C. State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement announced Friday that the public hearing […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly has finalized legislation implementing the voter photo identification mandate approved in a statewide referendum last month. The Senate voted 25-7 on Thursday to accept House changes to the […]
RALEIGH — With an unusually high number of constitutional changes on November’s ballot, there is a lot at stake for many groups and a lot of money being invested to sway the vote. The amendments […]
The election process in North Carolina is broken. More specifically, the process in-between elections is broken. Too many lawyers. Too many lawsuits. Too many unelected judges inserting themselves into what is constitutionally a legislative issue. […]
There are four methods of selecting judges in use in the United States: partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, political appointment and appointment by a technocratic commission (sometimes called the “Missouri Plan” and often dominated by the […]
The N.C. judicial system should be made up of the best judges we can find. No one disagrees about that. But how do you make that happen? Our current system allows our citizens to pick […]
Though I understand that the policy of the American Bar Association has long been to favor some form of merit selection, I would like to speak in favor of elections. While the faults of such […]
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper appointed four Democrats and four Republicans to the State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement today under a newly enacted law. The first order of business for the new board […]
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