Consumer Finance Companies Win Profitable Legislation With Big Donations to Lawmakers; Will Gov. Cooper Veto? Through last-minute maneuvering by General Assembly leaders, the consumer loan industry won a prize piece of legislation from state legislators who have benefited handsomely from the industry’s campaign donations that total over $500,000 in the past four years. An amendment [...]
You've likely heard about the request from the Trump "Commission on Election Integrity" for states to submit detailed information about voters. Contrary to some reports, our State Board of Elections is NOT submitting any confidential information about voters, such as Social Security Numbers or birth dates. Because of the pushback, the Commission's request is on pause, but [...]
A coalition of young North Carolina voters from across the state rallied for redistricting reform Wednesday outside of the N.C. General Assembly. Click here to watch the "Fair Maps for a Fair Future" rally for redistricting reform. The event, entitled "Fair Maps for a Fair Future," featured North Carolina college students and recent graduates who are participating in Democracy North Carolina’s summer [...]
Like Russian efforts to hack U.S. elections, the North Carolina legislature’s attacks on our state’s democracy have been broad and brazen. The Rev. William J. Barber II, taking his moral movement beyond N.C., reminded us last week on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” that our state’s racist election tampering was more of a threat [...]
As the General Assembly considers major legislation (HB-581) to cut back regulation of the billboard industry, a nonprofit organization is criticizing two of the state’s largest billboard companies for “political favoritism and censorship.” Democracy North Carolina, a voting rights and campaign finance watchdog group, has been trying to post Both Lamar Outdoor Advertising and [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by North Carolina lawmakers to review a case that struck down 2011 state legislative districts drawn as illegal racial gerrymanders. The Court also sent the case back to the lower court to determine whether elections should be held in 2017 as initially ordered. Voting rights group [...]
DURHAM, N.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday to remand a racial gerrymandering case back to the N.C. Supreme Court per last week's Cooper v. Harris decision. Dickson v. Rucho is one of two racial gerrymandering cases that were left pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. Justices last week decided Cooper v. Harris, affirming a lower court ruling finding North [...]
New Voters Reject Party Labels; Democrats, GOP Growing Older North Carolina has added nearly one million voters to the registration rolls since Barack Obama’s first victory in the state in May 2008 – and a surprising four out of five of them (80%) are refusing to choose a party label, according to an analysis by [...]
The chair of the NC Senate Select Committee on Elections has failed to provide answers to serious charges about the misuse of his campaign money. We need to hold him accountable — and the State Board of Elections needs to use its authority to inspect the bank records of the campaign. Here’s the background: - [...]
Senate Elections Committee Chair Violates Disclosure Law, Is Suspected of Excess Payments to Himself A voting rights group today is calling on State Sen. Ralph Hise, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Elections, to recuse himself from any further involvement with restructuring the State Board of Elections because he faces charges of violating campaign disclosure [...]
