As early voting begins soon for the midterm elections, organizers say mobilizing voters who feel overlooked could reshape North Carolina’s political future.
A federal court recently approved a new 2026 election map intended to make it impossible for Davis, the incumbent Democrat, to win. But that Republican calculus may not be as certain as it once seemed.
NC Democrats flipped Republican mayoral offices and several seats on city councils on Tuesday, but what does that mean for the next election? Here are some takeaways about what the results could mean moving forward.
North Carolina joins several other Republican-led states that have sought to remove Democratic representatives from Congress by drawing districts they can’t win.
A federal judge on Monday approved a plan to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department that demanded North Carolina election officials accumulate identification numbers lacking on the records of more than 100,000 registered voters.
NC State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes is setting off on a mission to correct 103,000 North Carolinians’ voting records from which some information is missing.
My grandmothers were born during a time when their race made casting a ballot dangerous. Now, their grandson has been elected mayor.
People who care about democracy breathed a sigh of relief when a federal judge put a stop to this in early May, ordering the state to certify the rightful winner of the election, Justice Riggs.
Yet the very fact that a near-record number of young people participated in the most recent election is proof positive that young people need and deserve investment in their civic education, which translates directly into the overall strength of our democracy.
North Carolina's election chief helped the state vote in large numbers through a pandemic, the aftermath of hurricanes, and endless streams of disinformation.
So Republicans fired her.
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