voting

Bloomberg, surrogates for Sanders, Biden come to North Carolina

February 13, 2020 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s primary elections are heating up with presidential candidates and their surrogates visiting as early in-person voting begins. Registered voters or people who want to register now can cast ballots at locations […]

Report says election vendors are ‘prime targets,’ need oversight

November 13, 2019 Christina A. Cassidy | The Associated Press

ATLANTA — The private companies that make voting equipment and build and maintain voter registration databases lack any meaningful federal oversight despite the crucial role they play in U.S. elections, leaving the nation’s electoral process […]

Cooper vetoes bill that would remove illegal immigrants from voter rolls

November 7, 2019 The Associated Press & NSJ Staff Reports

RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill on Wednesday that addressed potential unlawful voting in North Carolina by non-citizens but signed another that strengthens mail-in absentee balloting rules following evidence of fraud in a […]

State, federal authorities end look into voting-machine ownership

July 23, 2019 Emery P. Dalesio | The Associated Press

RALEIGH — Federal authorities found nothing troubling after looking into voting-machine makers largely owned by private equity firms that don’t disclose their investors, so North Carolina elections officials said Tuesday they’re ready to certify which […]

NOTHSTINE: Making sense of NC party affiliation numbers

September 20, 2017 Ray Nothstine

For the first time in North Carolina history unaffiliated voters outnumber one of the two major political parties. This fact, which is keeping up with political trends nationwide, is catching the attention of state politicos. […]