VOTING

After voting, I think the second most important thing we can do this year is tell other people in our lives why they also must vote. Earlier this month,  my husband’s uncle Alan, who lives in Brevard, sent everyone in the family an email titled “November 5th.”

Republicans accused state election officials of ignoring federal law requiring driver’s license and social security data to be included for every voter in the state database and of opening the door for noncitizens to vote. But, election officials say, the lawsuit misunderstood and misrepresented state data.

The 42nd president of the United States capped off a four-day visit to eastern North Carolina with a stop in downtown Raleigh. Clinton detailed the dangers of Donald Trump potentially returning to the White House and laid out how Kamala Harris would work to solve the country’s problems.

Nearly all the scheduled early voting sites will open in the worst hit areas of western North Carolina, Board of Elections executive director Karen Brinson Bell said on Tuesday. “The people of western North Carolina will vote.”

The state elections board passed a resolution providing needed flexibility in 13 hard-hit counties, and promising a “robust” and “secure” election.

The North Carolina Board of Elections created a webpage – NCSBE.gov/Helene – where they have vowed to put all relevant Helene-election information, including much of what you are about to read here.

Turnout in eastern North Carolina could be critical to the outcome of the presidential election and other races on the ballot. All Americans Vote is in the process of registering thousands of voters in the area, many of whom are voting for the first time.

Your North Carolina absentee ballot will be delayed, possibly by weeks, because of a NC Supreme Court decision that many are calling partisan in nature.

Non-citizens cannot vote in North Carolina, or anywhere else in the country, for that matter, but state Republicans have sued the North Carolina Board of Elections, falsely accusing it of turning a blind eye to hundreds of thousands non-residents on the voter rolls. The accusation is “categorically false,” elections officials say, and misunderstands or misrepresents…

Cardinal & Pine spoke with North Carolina voters to get a better understanding of how and why women are excited about this seismic political moment since Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee for president.