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Opinion: Female Candidates—and Voters—Benefit from Rural Candidate Information Project
| July 18, 2024
The Fall 2023 municipal election was a pretty good one for women candidates in my county, which is significant in a state given a grade of “D” on the 2023 Gender Parity Index. The index, which is compiled annually by RepresentWomen, measures the share of women holding elective office at all levels. While we didn’t […]
Op-ed: Mayland Community College should get student IDs approved for voting
| May 24, 2024
With the reopening of the application period, Mayland Community College can rectify this situation by submitting an application to the NCSBE to have its student IDs approved as an acceptable voting ID within the published time frame.
VIDEO: Democracy Needs “Hands-On” Young People
| April 30, 2024
Anderson Clayton was only 25 years old when she was elected to lead the North Carolina Democratic Party last year, so she understands what it’s like to be a young person and to be fed up with how things are going. But she also has a message for young voters: the solution is to get […]
Citing an NC law’s racist roots, a federal judge blocks a provision criminalizing felony voting
| April 25, 2024
The judge ruled that subsequent changes to the law had not diminished “its discriminatory taint,” and that it still disproportionately affected Black voters.
Op-ed: Why we need to ban partisan gerrymandering once and for all
| April 22, 2024
Some legislatures draw election maps that empower their favored voters and disenfranchise those on the other side. The “Fair Maps Act,” Congressman Wiley Nickel writes, would assure fairness by taking politicians out of the electoral maps process.
Republican candidate to lead NC’s public schools has called for execution of Obama, Biden and other Democrats
| March 15, 2024
CNN broke the story that Michele Morrow’s social media history included suggestions that President Obama face a firing squad and that President Biden deserved to die over his COVID mask guidelines.