Voting In State
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Tuesday is Election Day. Here’s what you need to know
Here are some tips on voter ID, polling hours and what’s at stake in this election.
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VIDEO: What Do Gerrymandering and Abortion Bans Have in Common
The Republican-controlled General Assembly passed its 12-week abortion ban over the objections of nearly every medical association and a majority of North Carolinians, and they did it at night and with little chance for debate. They passed new election maps, which all but ensure they maintain a supermajority in a 50-50 political state, in a…
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VIDEO: Poor People’s Campaign Calls for Voter Mobilization to Transform Politics
WATCH: If poor and working-class people voted more often, politics would change for the better. That was the message Monday from civil rights leader William Barber II and the Poor People’s Campaign, a national economic justice group originally led by Martin Luther King Jr. The organization’s leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., Monday to talk about…
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Time’s running out to register to vote for NC’s primary elections. Here’s what to do.
Want a say in the nominees the major parties put up in November’s general election? You need to register by Feb. 9.
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VIDEO: Gerrymandering Threatens Abortion Rights. What Can Voters Do?
North Carolina Republicans redrew Congressman Wiley Nickel’s district so that he had no chance of winning re-election in 2024. That process is called gerrymandering. And its dangers are far greater than threatening individual political careers. By drawing districts that ensure Republican victories and Democratic losses, that means Congress and the North Carolina legislature are freer…
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VIDEO: Gerrymandering: Duke vs. UNC
Several voting rights groups and voters of color have sued North Carolina Republicans over their new election maps, which all but ensure Republicans stay in power no matter what voters want. This process is called gerrymandering. But what IS gerrymandering? If you like Duke vs. UNC basketball, Cardinal and Pine political correspondent Mike McElroy will…
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VIDEO: More Groups are Suing over NC Republicans’ Gerrymandered District Maps
A third lawsuit was filed this week challenging the constitutionality of North Carolina’s latest gerrymandered maps. The lawsuit argues the state’s newly-drawn Congressional and state legislative maps — which Republicans drew to maintain their stranglehold on power — are all unconstitutional. Bob Phillips is the Executive Director of Common Cause NC, one of the groups…
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VIDEO: ‘Barbershop Conversations’ in NC Give Voice to Black Male Voters
New Rural Project, a group focused on improving voter engagement in rural areas, helped elect four Black candidates in majority-white town and city councils this year. Co-founder Cynthia Wallace said the key to improving voter participation in these areas was to actually listen to voters’ concerns. View this post on Instagram A post…
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North Carolina approves more student and employee IDs you can use to vote
he North Carolina Board of Elections has now listed 120 student and employee photo IDs that can be used to vote in the 2024 elections.
