Billy Corriher

1 week ago | ashepostandtimes.com | Billy Corriher

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2 weeks ago | democracydocket.com | Billy Corriher

On May 27, two weeks after Republicans took control of North Carolina’s elections, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the new Board of Elections. The lawsuit demands that the board move more quickly to address minor flaws with voter registration information — a process that advocates fear could lead to a massive voter purge. But the case is unusual because the ostensible defendant, the board, says it supports the plaintiff’s goal of fixing the problem.

1 month ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Billy Corriher

A few months after I left my hometown of Cherryville, North Carolina for college, I voted in my first presidential election. Like so many people in America, I was shocked to watch the disputed 2000 election play out in Florida and then the U.S. Supreme Court. One side accused the other of trying to change the rules after the election so its candidate would come out ahead. I was even more shocked, decades later, when something similar happened in North Carolina.

1 month ago | democracydocket.com | Billy Corriher

In a victory for North Carolina Democrats, Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in for a new term on Tuesday, days after Judge Jefferson Griffin conceded that he lost the 2024 election for the seat. Griffin’s Republican friends on the high court had ruled to throw out ballots by changing the rules retroactively, prompting a federal court to step in to stop the election theft.

1 month ago | governing.com | Billy Corriher

Over the next two decades, demand could increase by between 1.8 percent and 3.1 percent annually, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council heard Tuesday. The projected growth will come primarily from companies building more data centers in the region, more electric vehicles on roads, electrifying buildings, computer chip manufacturing and the production of “green hydrogen” created by running an electrical current through water to split the molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.