WFAE reached out to North Carolina Democrats running for Senate and asked specifically about the Manchin idea on voter ID. How did each candidate feel about supporting the idea?

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin — the key figure in passing the Democrats' sweeping voting rights bill — this week released a three-page memo showing voting reform that he would support. How do North Carolina's voting laws stack up to his proposal?

The Charlotte City Council and mayor are likely to get four or five months added to their two-year terms because of U.S. Census Bureau delays in reporting data. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board? Some will likely get an extra year to their four-year terms. Why the disparity?

Democrats voted by mail in the 2020 election in record numbers. But what about those late-arriving mail ballots — the ones that were postmarked by Election Day but arrived up to nine days afterward in North Carolina? Who cast those ballots? WFAE's Steve Harrison takes a look at the data for some surprising revelations.

Former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley jumped in the race for the open U.S. Senate seat this week, joining four other Democratic candidates. WFAE's politics reporter Steve Harrison had a quick conversation with Beasley to try to find out more about her.

The Associated Press recently noted that states won by Joe Biden have a higher percentage of people getting vaccinated for COVID-19 than states won by former President Trump. Is that true when broken down at the county level in North Carolina?

North Carolina's state elections director has recommended postponing this fall's municipal elections to 2022 because of an expected delay in redistricting due to late census data. This week, town commissioners in Huntersville said a loud "no thank you."

As Republicans nationwide have filed bills to restrict voting, the North Carolina GOP filed the “Election Integrity Act” last week, its first election-related bill.

States like Georgia and Arizona are now considering bills to limit absentee by mail voting, but North Carolina — home to some of the most bitter fights over voting in the last decade — has been completely quiet in 2021. Political watchers in Raleigh wonder when that's going to change.

Joe Biden won every precinct in the city of Charlotte except two in the November election. Donald Trump won only 14 precincts in all of Mecklenburg County.