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VOTING
NC Supreme Court

NC Supreme Court update: Riggs declares victory as her opponent challenges 60,000 votes

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The margin between Riggs and Griffin is .02 percentage points, well below the threshold for being able to seek a recount. Griffin asked for and was granted the recount this week, a process which should be done by Nov. 27, election officials say. Griffin has also submitted some 300 pages of documents challenging the validity of more than 60,000 votes based on legal ideas courts have rejected in separate cases.
VOTING - Cardinal & Pine

What’s with all the still uncounted provisional ballots in NC in 2024?

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As part of North Carolina's thorough election canvassing process, county boards of elections are still researching provisional ballots to see whether they should be counted, a process that could still affect close contests like the state Supreme Court race between Justice Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin, who are separated by fewer than 8,000 votes.
Voter Fraud

Voter fraud is rare. Intentional voter fraud that changes elections is non-existent.

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Several large studies show only a handful of voter fraud cases amid millions of votes cast, and some of those cases are innocent errors rather than dubious plots. But since we are still almost guaranteed to see claims from losing candidates in the coming days that the vote was rigged, here's what to know about voter fraud in North Carolina and why the elections are in reality very secure.
Election Day

Here’s why it could take some time to know who won the election

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The vote counting process in North Carolina moves relatively fast, but it's still thorough. So cin close races it may take days to know who won. However long it takes, however, it is NOT evidence of election fraud or malfeasance. It’s proof of the opposite: that North Carolina’s elections are secure, fair, and accurate.
Kamala Harris

‘We can’t stay silent’: A closing message for Kamala Harris fills an historic Durham church

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St. Joseph African Methodist Episcopal Church welcomed surrogates for the Harris-Walz campaign on Sunday. Pastors and officials both said Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump offered two very different visions for the future.  On the last Sunday of the early voting period in North Carolina, Justice Hill, the young adult minister at St. Joseph […]
VOTING - Cardinal & Pine

North Carolina is finally confronting the ‘horror stories’ of its medical debt crisis 

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The state has among the worst rates of medical debt in the country, but new programs introduced by Roy Cooper and Vice President Kamala Harris could bring relief to millions of low- and middle-income North Carolinians.