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The March 5 primary was the first statewide test of North Carolina's voter ID law. Of the 1.8 million people who voted, 473 had their ballots not counted because of photo ID. That’s one rejected ballot for every 3,800 voters.
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The fight over whether Republicans keep their supermajority in the General Assembly will come down to just a handful of legislative districts. There are 120 seats in the House. Almost all are preordained in terms of who will win.
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As the Republican Party stampedes ever further to the right, politicians who were once the vanguard of the conservative movement, like Dan Bishop, find themselves with plenty of company.
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Early voting is underway for the March 5 primary — the biggest election North Carolina has held under the state’s photo ID law. To get an idea of the impact of photo ID, Inside Politics is looking at the November 2023 election, which was mostly city and town contests across the state. A photo ID was also required for voters in that election, sort of a dry run for the much bigger contests this year.
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In his current bid for North Carolina commissioner of labor, Braxton Winston is facing a stiff political headwind: a difficulty (so far) in raising money.
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Though the district attorney's office is a state responsibility, Mecklenburg County sends the district attorney $3.6 million each year to hire additional prosecutors. The city of Charlotte chipped in roughly $313,000.
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The six Republican candidates for the 8th Congressional District were in near-total agreement most of the night at last week's debate, but pastor Mark Harris and Mecklenburg State Rep. John Bradford clashed a handful of times.
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Exploring the impact of what could be called cannon-fodder candidates, people with almost no chance to win, but who are enlisted to boost their party overall. In 2024, it’s North Carolina Democrats who are ceding no ground, running candidates in 118 of 120 state House races and all 50 state Senate races.
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After years of empty floors, ghostly parking decks and tumbleweed-esque sidewalks, the city of Charlotte’s economic development staff are prepping City Council members to give some kind of public assistance for uptown office tower owners. Last Monday, economic development director Tracy Dodson invited former Ballantyne real estate executive Ned Curran to talk about how work-from-home has crippled the office market.
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The Charlotte City Council met in closed session this week to review the police body camera footage from a violent arrest in November after police said two people were smoking marijuana at a bus stop.