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Chantal Stevens, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, speaks at a news conference

Politics & Government

Elections board, absentee, early vote changes heard by North Carolina Senate panel

11:08am June 15, 2023

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina Republican senators began on Wednesday to attempt to advance wide-ranging voting measures addressing early and absentee balloting and transferring control over the state election board from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to legislative leaders.

Reggie Weaver speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, about a recent partisan gerrymandering ruling

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N. Carolina justices hand GOP big win with election rulings

1:43pm April 28, 2023

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

In massive victories for Republicans, the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased.

Perrin Thompson kisses her ballot for luck and does a little dance before dropping it into a drop site outside of the Multnomah County Elections Division in Portland, Ore., Nov. 8, 2022.

See what Election Day looked like around the country

1:11am November 09, 2022

by Grace Widyatmadja

For the midterm races, photographers at NPR member stations documented what happened leading up to Election Day. Take a look at what they saw.

Michelle Bobadilla became a citizen in 2017, and casted her first ballot in the 2019 municipal elections. Bobadilla knew the voting process firsthand thanks to her career, but says the process is not an easy one. Photo courtesy of Michelle Bobadilla, Deputy Director in the Forsyth County Board of Elections

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What you need to know as a new citizen voting for the first time

6:19am October 13, 2022

by Eileen Rodriguez

Voting can be a confusing process, especially if you’re a newly naturalized citizen navigating it for the first time. With midterm elections approaching, here are the available resources, requirements, and steps you need to take to vote this election season.

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NC Supreme Court weighs if voter ID tainted by racial bias

4:01pm October 03, 2022

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina’s long-litigated photo voter identification law was appraised at the state Supreme Court on Monday.

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Court opens door to voiding N. Carolina Voter ID amendment

9:33am August 21, 2022

by Associated Press, Jonathan Drew, Gary Robertson

North Carolina's highest court opened the door Friday to nullifying a voter ID mandate approved by citizens in 2018 because the lawmakers who put it on the ballot were elected from districts tainted by illegal racial bias.