Lenoir County Board of Elections staff will visit three Neuse Regional Library locations Tuesday, Sept. 15, to help residents register to vote and access other election services.
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Greene County Board of Elections to establish One-Stop early voting at upcoming meeting
The Greene County Board of Elections will meet on Wednesday, July 20, in the Commissioners' Meeting Room at the Greene County Operations Center at 6 p.m. to establish the One-Stop early voting hours and locations for the general election in November 2022.
N.C. Supreme Court halts 2022 candidate filing, delays primary
On Tuesday, December 8 the Supreme Court of North Carolina issued an order to halt candidate filings for the 2022 election and delayed the primary. The new primary will be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.
The order also states, “Any individual who has already filed to run for public office in 2022 and whose filing has been accepted by the appropriate board of elections, will be deemed to have filed…”
A new filing period has yet to be established by the State Board of Elections or N.C. Supreme Court.
Reece Gardner: ID requirement is not a novel idea
Just recently, on September 17, a 3-judge panel of the Wake County Superior Court ruled 2-1 that North Carolina's Voter ID Law violates the State Constitution and cannot be put in force. These two judges wrote that the attorneys defending the law failed to prove that it was not discriminatory.
John Hood: What’s more Democratic than an election?
Do the ends justify the means? This familiar question produces strong feelings precisely because its answer is necessarily complicated. Just about all of us admit to a scenario, such as the proverbial ticking time-bomb, in which we would countenance unsavory means if required to save lives. In general, however, most religious and ethical traditions teach that we are not permitted to use injurious or unethical means to accomplish even noble ends.