Coleen Harry

North Carolina’s Black voter turnout in the 2020 general election ticked up 4% from 2016. The turnout for Black votes overall was 68%, according to State Board of Elections data.

Ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration at noon Wednesday, WFAE asked Charlotte residents what they’re hoping to hear and see from the new president's speech and from his administration.

Despite issues such as the coronavirus pandemic, the economy and racial injustice, more than 1 million North Carolinians who were eligible to vote decided to take a pass in 2020.

How many homeless people vote is difficult to determine. The State Board of Elections doesn’t track the demographic. But, the number of homeless people who can vote is significant.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections says investigators are still trying to get to the bottom of claims of voter-assistance irregularities in Anson county.

If not for the seriousness of the issue he is raising, Matthew Ridenhour might have had a good laugh at what he found on the Mecklenburg County voter registration list. One man's address, for instance, is listed as SouthPark Mall. Three other people said they live at the USPS Starmount location.

Voting rights advocates want changes to state election laws. Democrats will likely agree. Republicans also have their eyes on change — just not what voting groups have on their radar.

The 2020 General Election is notable in many ways. Turnout was a record 75%. A little more than 1 million people voted by mail-in ballots. But it could be the election that prompts lawmakers to change who’s in charge of administering future elections.

Two weeks after the polls closed in North Carolina and nearly 4 million people voted in person during the COVID-19 pandemic, state health officials have some good news: There appear to be no clusters of the virus associated with voting in person.

State elections officials said they’re taking another look at allegations that a campaign worker in Anson County broke the rules of voter assistance and walked into the polling site at the elections office, assisting some voters with their ballots.