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Jan 15, 2025 | 
carolinapublicpress.org | Sarah Michels
Before the sun rose on a chilly Tuesday, a group gathered in Raleigh’s Bicentennial Park to read 60,000 names. From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., various speakers took turns at a podium, aptly facing away from the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
upandcomingweekly.com | Sarah Michels
During Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s time in office, the legislature made six attempts to restructure election boards and take power away from him. It appears new Gov. Josh Stein’s experience won’t be any different. In late December, he was added to a 2023 lawsuit that originally challenged a now-repealed, previous attempt at taking away a governor’s power over election boards. The case is now in Wake County Superior Court. An eventual ruling could be appealed all the way up to the state Supreme Court.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
carolinapublicpress.org | Sarah Michels
During Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s time in office, the legislature made six attempts to restructure election boards and take power away from him. It appears new Gov. Josh Stein’s experience won’t be any different. In late December, he was added to a that originally challenged a now-repealed, previous attempt at taking away a governor’s power over election boards. The case is now in Wake County Superior Court. An eventual ruling could be appealed all the way up to the state Supreme Court.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
carolinapublicpress.org | Sarah Michels
Election certification in a razor-thin race between Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin and state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat,had been scheduled for Friday. But that’s apparently not going to happen. The N.C. Supreme Court issued a temporary stay Tuesday afternoon, barring the State Board of Elections from certifying the election until the court decides on the merits of Griffin’s election protests.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
carolinapublicpress.org | Sarah Michels
The fate of student voting in North Carolina may come down to how courts define one word: “card.” It’s one of several elections lawsuits before various North Carolina courts as litigation filed before Election Day 2024 continues into 2025. In the run-up to the 2024 general election, at least half a dozen lawsuits were filed against the State Board of Elections over various elections and voting issues. In most cases, courts issued temporary, preliminary rulings ahead of the election.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
qcitymetro.com | Sarah Michels
After two-and-a-half hours of discussion, the fate of election protests challenging 60,000 ballots came down to a postcard and a QR code. The State Board of Elections met Wednesday for an election protest hearing involving several close elections. They dismissed each, mostly along party lines. Before discussing the merits of each of the three protest grounds, they discarded the protests in their entirety for failing to adequately notify the voters whose ballots were being challenged.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
carolinapublicpress.org | Sarah Michels
More than a month after Election Day, several North Carolina races continue. Ongoing recounts and consideration of election protests have postponed final determinations in a handful of legislative elections and the contest for a state Supreme Court seat. It’s unclear when these races will be resolved, but county boards of election and the North Carolina State Board of Elections are working through each as the new year gets closer.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
wfdd.org | Sarah Michels
Meredith Brooke Bass, 44, grew up with Jefferson Griffin. A year ahead of him in school, she was best friends with one of his first cousins. Today, they’re still personal Facebook friends. But Bass didn’t vote for Griffin for North Carolina Supreme Court; she opted for Democrat Allison Riggs instead. Now, she is one of thousands of names on a list of voters who Griffin alleges may not have been eligible to do so.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
carolinapublicpress.org | Sarah Michels
Meredith Brooke Bass, 44, grew up with Jefferson Griffin. A year ahead of him in school, she was best friends with one of his first cousins. Today, they’re still personal Facebook friends. But Bass didn’t vote for Griffin for North Carolina Supreme Court; she opted for Democrat Allison Riggs instead. Now, she is one of thousands of names on a list of voters who Griffin alleges may not have been eligible to do so.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
carolinapublicpress.org | Sarah Michels
North Carolina Republicans may be on the precipice of losing their legislative supermajority, pending election protests, but in one of their final veto-proof acts, they’re attempting to lock in elections appointment power for their party far beyond this election. During its November session, the General Assembly passed a third Helene recovery bill, Senate Bill 382. It moves, but does not appropriate, $227 million from North Carolina’s reserve fund to the Helene Fund.
