LATEST ELECTION NEWS
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A flap over North Carolina absentee ballots in the 2020 election has resurfaced at the General Assembly as Republicans gave final approval to legislation limiting Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein’s ability to enter legal settlements. The bill is now heading to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk following a party-line House vote on Wednesday.
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A new book, Peril, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was attempting to head off a potential armed conflict when he called his Chinese counterpart twice in Trump's final months in office.
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New documents released by the House Oversight Committee log a telephone conversation between Justice Department leaders and then-President Donald Trump in December 2020.
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Emails released by the House Oversight Committee show Trump pressuring his acting attorney general even before William Barr stepped down from the position.
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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.
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Election materials are no longer in the custody of election officials — a possible violation of law, the DOJ says. And plans for canvassing may violate laws aimed at preventing voter intimidation.
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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?
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"Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process," the voting machine company's lawsuit said.
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North Carolina Republican senators peppered the state's top elections administrator on Tuesday with questions about a legal settlement that altered rules for the fall election, accusing her of carrying out unlawful balloting changes and reducing voter confidence.
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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.