Akron Works To Bring Joy To Voting
Akron is one of four cities using civic-engagement grants to make voting a more playful and community-oriented act.
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Judge Rules North Carolina Counties Must Restore Voters Removed From Rolls
A federal judge has ordered local elections boards in North Carolina to restore voters to the rolls after their registrations were canceled.
Democracy 101: A Last-Minute Guide To Voting In North Carolina
Election Day is just days away (Nov. 8th, to be precise), and while plenty of North Carolina voters will head to the polls on the day itself, there's still time to vote early, as well.
Why Do We Vote On Tuesdays?
The tradition goes back to the 19th century, when the U.S. was largely an agrarian, Christian society. People needed a day to travel by horse and buggy to vote and November was after the fall harvest.
Plans To Watch Polls For Fraud Raise Fears Of Intimidation
The head of one effort asked supporters "to go and hunt down, look for vote fraud and voter intimidation and document it, to do the best we can to stop it this election."
Democracy 101: Election 2016 Has Become About Both Who's Voting, And Who's Watching
Millions of people are about to head to the polls, and not all of them are voters.
A Complete Guide To Early And Absentee Voting
Early voting is set to account for one-third of all votes cast this election. Does your state allow early voting? And how do the campaigns use this data? Find out with our complete guide.
Democracy 101: Decoding The Electoral College
“The primary purpose of the Electoral College was to put kind of a safety valve if we ever had too much democracy.”
Redistricting, Take Two: What New Statehouse Maps Could Mean For North Carolina Voters
Last week, federal judges struck down 30 North Carolina state legislative districts as unconstitutional because the court said were racially gerrymandered.
Federal Court Nullifies State Legislative Districts; Election Will Go On As Planned
A U.S. District Court ruled Thursday that more than two dozen state House and Senate districts are unconstitutional because they were racially gerrymandered.