The North Carolina General Assembly will again approve a voter ID requirement, and again over a gubernatorial veto, after Democratically controlled state Supreme Court shot the law down in a parting shot, predicts Lisa Dixon, Executive Director of Lawyers Democracy Fund (LDF).
A judge’s rejection of a North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) appeal over signature verification by county election officials on mail ballots undermines a “commonsense approach” to enforcing state law, says an executive with a public interest law firm.
Last Friday's ruling by the state Supreme Court questioning the legality of the state’s constitutional voter ID amendment pits a few “liberal justices” against the will of the people and their representatives in the state legislature, says Lisa Dixon, executive director of the Lawyers Democracy Fund, a public interest law firm specializing in election law.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 23 ruling that upheld the right of North Carolina lawmakers to intervene in court to defend a 2018 voter ID law was applauded by some of the nation’s leading advocates for laws and voting practices that advance election integrity.
The impact of an imminent U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning a legal battle over a North Carolina voter ID law could be felt across the country, says Tom Spencer, vice president of the Lawyers Democracy Fund.
North Carolina voter rolls are plagued with duplicate registrations and deceased registrants, a public interest law firm specializing in election integrity has found.
The North Carolina Board of Elections has agreed to disclose voting records indicating the number of foreign citizens who have registered and voted in the state’s elections.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation banning election officials from accepting private donations to underwrite the administration of elections has one conservative elections analyst questioning his motives.
Legislation on Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk would have North Carolina join other states that, since the 2020 general election, have banned election officials from accepting private money to help underwrite administrative costs.
In North Carolina, budget negotiations and the prospect of an almost certain veto by Gov. Roy Cooper have suspended legislative action on three election-reform bills.
The North Carolina Senate is poised to act on legislation that would follow other states in prohibiting local election officials from taking private money to help fund the management of elections.
The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) has formed an Election Integrity Committee “to ensure that the 2022 elections in North Carolina remain fair and transparent,” NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley told the Carolina Journal.