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North Carolina Wants To Know Who Owns Voting-Machine Makers
North Carolina's elections board is delaying a decision on certifying voting-machine makers until learning more about who owns them as worries grow about foreign interference.
Elections board chairman Robert Cordle said Friday that the board wants to look more closely at who is behind companies by checking layers of ownership. Cordle says special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election meddling highlights that officials need to work harder to prevent foreign adversaries from tampering with elections.
The three companies seeking state approval to sell machines to counties have until the end of next week to disclose everyone owning 5 percent or more.
Supreme Court Won't Put Amendments Challenge In Fast Lane
Litigation challenging whether two constitutional amendments should be voided despite voter approval won't take the express lane to North Carolina's highest court.
Justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court said this week that they won't hear the state NAACP's lawsuit before the state Court of Appeals does.
A trial court judge in February threw out amendments that voters approved mandating photo voter identification and lower caps on income tax rates. The judge agreed with NAACP arguments that the 2018 legislature had been "illegally constituted" through gerrymandered districts and thus lacked power to put the amendment referendums on the ballot.
Democrat Cal Cunningham Enters North Carolina Senate Race
A former state senator tells The Associated Press he's running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican incumbent Thom Tillis.
Democrat Cal Cunningham had been campaigning for lieutenant governor in North Carolina, but he announced Monday he's switching 2020 races. At least two other Democrats already are running for the seat, which would be a major pickup for Democrats trying to win back a Senate majority.
Cunningham previously ran for Senate in 2010, finishing second in the Democratic primary. His only elected office has been a single term in the state Senate, but the 45-year-old attorney and Iraq War veteran has remained well-connected in state Democratic politics.
Polio Hospital That Became A Jail To Get Historical Marker
A former polio hospital that became a jail for civil rights protesters will be recognized with a North Carolina historical marker.
It was in 1948 that polio spread rapidly, killing 147 people with 2,517 cases recorded in North Carolina. The epidemic hit Guilford County particularly hard. Citizens raised money, and the Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital in Greensboro was built just 95 days after fundraising began.
It was racially integrated from the outset, treating and employing both whites and African Americans.
The building then served as a jail for civil rights protesters in 1963. In May of that year, over 1,000 people marched in efforts to desegregate movie theaters and restaurants.
Burglary Suspect Caught, Had Machete Wound Inflicted By Boy
Police say a burglary suspect with a machete wound from a run-in with an 11-year-old boy has been caught, days after he slipped out of a hospital where he was being treated.
Sgt. Shane Brown of the Burlington Police Department said 19-year-old Jataveon Dashawn Hall was arrested Sunday in Burlington after a two-day manhunt.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office says Hall faces charges of breaking into a home to burglarize it. Authorities say the home invasion occurred Friday morning and that Hall was chased away by the 11-year-old, who struck him with a machete. The boy was home alone.
Hall later sought hospital treatment for head wounds but slipped away Friday evening, prompting questions about how closely he was guarded.
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