Elections
More than 90 counties in North Carolina have local elections this year for vital roles that help set a community’s budget and define its principles.
Republican State Rep. Erin Paré wants to force the state's most populous county to become the only one in the state that holds nonpartisan commissioner elections, and requires that members be elected by district, rather than the county at large.
The GOP’s request for total control is not altogether surprising, as the courts have repeatedly found that North Carolina Republicans have gerrymandered and disenfranchised Black voters in the state with “almost surgical precision.”
As state attorney general, Stein has defended reproductive freedom in North Carolina, reduced the state’s testing backlog on sexual assault kits, defended voting rights, and helped negotiate a national opioid settlement.
Has the party of Trump finally hit a wall after the bipartisan January 6th committee recommended criminal prosecution of the former president?
After a judge suspended Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene in October for racist comments, he resigned and then ran for re-election (and won) in what some are calling an effort to “game the system."
The Moore v. Harper case, which originated in North Carolina, has the potential to dramatically alter American elections.