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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Department of Justice suing North Carolina for ‘inaccurate voter list'
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The State of North Carolina and its State Board of Elections are on the receiving end of a lawsuit claiming the state has failed to 'maintain an accurate voter list' in accordance with federal law. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had filed the lawsuit, which claims the state has directly violated the mandate laid out in the Help America Vote Act of 2002. The violation points to a registration form that the DOJ claims 'did not require a voter to provide identifying information such as a driver's license or last four digits of a social security number.' Once the forms were completed, voters were added to the state voter registration roll and some remain on it without the required information, the federal agency said. 'Accurate voter registration rolls are critical to ensure that elections in North Carolina are conducted fairly, accurately, and without fraud,' said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. 'The Department of Justice will not hesitate to file suit against jurisdictions that maintain inaccurate voter registration rolls in violation of federal voting laws.' The USDOJ also referenced Executive Order 14248 signed by President Donald Trump on March 25 which was titled 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.' The DOJ says that order is about guarding against illegal voting, unlawful discrimination, and other forms of fraud, error, or suspicion. CBS 17 reached out for a response from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Its executive director, Sam Hayes provided the following statement on the lawsuit: 'I was only recently notified of this action by the United States Department of Justice. We are still reviewing the complaint, but the failure to collect the information required by HAVA has been well documented. Rest assured that I am committed to bringing North Carolina into compliance with federal law.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Justice Department files lawsuit against North Carolina Board of Elections for alleged inaccurate voter list
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and the State Board of Elections for allegedly failing to maintain an accurate voter list. The lawsuit alleges that the state violated the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) by using a State voter registration form that did not require a voter to provide identifying information such as a driver's license or the last four digits of a social security number. The lawsuit adds that voters remain on the registration roll without the required information. On March 25, President Trump signed an executive order entitled Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections, in order to ensure that elections are held in compliance with federal laws. This issue surfaced during the months-long fight over a North Carolina State Supreme Court seat, ultimately won by Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs. 'Accurate voter registration rolls are critical to ensure that elections in North Carolina are conducted fairly, accurately, and without fraud,' said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. 'The Department of Justice will not hesitate to file suit against jurisdictions that maintain inaccurate voter registration rolls in violation of federal voting laws.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Former director of the State Board of Elections, Karen Brinson Bell, on her tenure, accomplishments
Karen Brinson Bell joins NC Newsline's Rob Schofield to discuss her six year tenure as director of the NC State Board of Elections. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline) Over the past six years, few public servants in North Carolina have had a bigger or more positive impact under more difficult circumstances than former State Board of Elections executive director Karen Brinson Bell. Despite woefully inadequate appropriations from the state legislature and relentless attacks from uninformed conspiracy theorists, Brinson Bell persevered, strengthened North Carolina elections and kept them among the nation's most efficient and honestly run. Unfortunately, those accomplishments were of little interest to the newly installed and hyper-partisan members of the board appointed by Republican state auditor Dave Boliek, who summarily fired Brinson Bell at their first meeting and refused to even allow her to deliver farewell remarks. Happily, Brinson Bell was kind enough join Newsline's Rob Schofield this past week for a special extended conversation and in Part One of our chat, we explored some of the accomplishments from her term in office that she thinks will be the most impactful. In Part Two, we turned our attention to some of the broader issues and challenges facing American elections – including the increasingly intense partisanship that led North Carolina GOP lawmakers to withhold election funding and, more recently, add seven new political appointees to the agency's staff, and the unfortunate phenomenon of politicians spreading unfounded conspiracy theories and refusing to concede close elections. Click here to listen to the full interview with Karen Brinson Bell. Read the prepared remarks of Brinson Bell delivered at the Board of Elections meeting on May 7, 2025.
Toronto Star
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Star
North Carolina's high court says elections board shift can continue while appeals carry on
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A divided North Carolina Supreme Court confirmed Friday that it was OK for a new law that shifted the power to appoint State Board of Elections members away from the Democratic governor to start being enforced earlier this month, even as the law's constitutionality is deliberated. The Republican majority on the court declined or dismissed requests that Gov. Josh Stein made three weeks ago to block for now the enforcement of the law approved last year by the GOP-controlled General Assembly shifting authority to Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek.
Washington Post
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
North Carolina's high court says elections board shift can continue while governor appeals
RALEIGH, N.C. — A divided North Carolina Supreme Court confirmed Friday that it was OK for a new law that shifted the power to appoint State Board of Elections members away from the Democratic governor to start being enforced earlier this month , even as the law's constitutionality is deliberated.
