VOTING

Election season is upon us, North Carolina, and before you can cast a ballot in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, you must first register to vote.

The Fall 2023 municipal election was a pretty good one for women candidates in my county, which is significant in a state given a grade of “D” on the 2023 Gender Parity Index. The index, which is compiled annually by RepresentWomen, measures the share of women holding elective office at all levels. While we didn’t…

With the reopening of the application period, Mayland Community College can rectify this situation by submitting an application to the NCSBE to have its student IDs approved as an acceptable voting ID within the published time frame. 

Anderson Clayton was only 25 years old when she was elected to lead the North Carolina Democratic Party last year, so she understands what it’s like to be a young person and to be fed up with how things are going. But she also has a message for young voters: the solution is to get…

The judge ruled that subsequent changes to the law had not diminished “its discriminatory taint,” and that it still disproportionately affected Black voters. 

Some legislatures draw election maps that empower their favored voters and disenfranchise those on the other side. The “Fair Maps Act,” Congressman Wiley Nickel writes, would assure fairness by taking politicians out of the electoral maps process.

CNN broke the story that Michele Morrow’s social media history included suggestions that President Obama face a firing squad and that President Biden deserved to die over his COVID mask guidelines.

With the State of the Union address tonight, Rep. Don Davis (D-NC) took a moment to talk about his special guest for the event — 109-year-old Cassie Smith of Battleboro, who Davis describes as a “living and walking symbol of our democracy.” Smith was one of the first residents in the state to cast a…

The law, passed last year by the Republican-controlled legislature, would have stripped Gov. Roy Cooper of appointment power to the state’s elections boards. it also would have likely created election gridlock.

Here are some tips on voter ID, polling hours and what’s at stake in this election.