Voter ID

The state NAACP’s request that Phil Berger Jr. and ex-Sen. Tamara Barringer be disqualified further clouds the future of photo voter ID requirements in one of the numerous Republican-dominated states where lawmakers have sought them.

A three-judge state panel overturned North Carolina's 2018 photo ID law on Friday. In a 2-1 decision, the judges said the law makes it harder for Black people to vote. Republicans will appeal.

North Carolina judges have struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law. Two of the three trial judges hearing a lawsuit declared on Friday that the December 2018 law is unconstitutional.

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?

A federal appeals court has ruled a judge didn’t step over the line when she refused to let North Carolina’s legislative leaders formally defend the state’s photo identification voting law with other state government attorneys.

A trial on North Carolina's latest photo voter identification law concluded Friday. Now a panel of judges must decide: were Republicans in the legislature motivated at least partially by racial bias? Or were they purely trying to carry out the public's desire for secure elections?

Lawyers will be in North Carolina courts again this week, battling over photo ID laws. This comes as voting rights advocates challenge restrictive elections laws across the country, from Georgia to Arizona.

Brad Raffensperger defended the security of his state's election against former President Donald Trump's claims of fraud. Now the official backs a new law promising election integrity.

Speaking on CNN recently about Republican attempts to pass voter ID laws, Gov. Roy Cooper said, "you don't see widespread problems with things that they're trying to attack, like voter ID." Was he correct? WRAL's Paul Specht joins WFAE's "Morning Edition" co-host Marshall Terry to assess the claim.

A federal judge wrongly blocked North Carolina's latest photo voter identification law, an appeals court ruled Wednesday, deciding she erred when declaring the requirement was tainted by racial bias because a previous voter ID law had been struck down on similar grounds.