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While there has been significant coverage of the election protests for the North Carolina Supreme Court election in both state and national news, the coverage has been chiefly topline and lacked a complete picture of the number of voters challenged in each protest. The lack of full context has created many misconceptions about the Griffin...

That’s the title of Bari Weiss’s recent interview with the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. Because I have lots of friends and relations in the UK, I follow British politics pretty closely, and I was very impressed by Kemi Badenoch’s maiden speech in the Commons in 2017. I’ve been expecting great things from her ever...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

The first lawsuit on Senate Bill 382 was filed Thursday evening, just one day after the State House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the bill. This is unlikely to be the only lawsuit on the bill, with many expecting lawsuits to be filed on changes the bill made to the Board of Elections,...

North Carolina’s absentee ballot law protects voters from manipulation and ballot trafficking A 2022 court ruling allows anyone to take possession of a disabled person’s absentee ballot The General Assembly should make permanent a post–Hurricane Helene law allowing multipartisan assistance teams to take possession of absentee ballots North Carolina has seen a flurry of election...

The Civitas Partisan Index (CPI) is a measure of the partisan tendency of state legislative districts Although the CPI is not a predictive model, someone using the CPI alone would have correctly predicted the outcome of 98.8% of races assigned a partisan lean The two districts (of 162 assigned a partisan lean) the CPI got...

Shorter legislative sessions are part of North Carolina’s citizen-legislature tradition and benefit both legislators and taxpayers The North Carolina General Assembly has experienced lengthening sessions over the past decade A constitutional amendment imposing flexible session limits would help the General Assembly return to its citizen-legislature roots This is the second of a four-part series covering...

The North Carolina General Assembly currently pays the fifth-lowest legislative salary of all states and U.S. territories The General Assembly should raise legislative salaries to enable more North Carolinians to be financially able to run for office An increase in taxpayer burden due to increasing salaries can be offset by reducing the length of legislative...

On the heels of incumbent Allison Riggs’ apparent win in the North Carolina Supreme Court race, challenger Jefferson Griffin’s campaign has challenged about 60,000 ballots they say are plagued by “irregularities and discrepancies.” The campaign’s list of protests to county election boards covers several categories, listed below (with letters to the Durham County Board of...

As part of the latest hurricane-recovery relief package, the legislature has embedded several policy changes into the bill that change various agencies, appointments, and powers issued to Council of State positions. Ignoring for the time being the questionable practice of adding policy changes to a funding bill (especially when the vehicle used is a unamendable...

Appointments to unfulfilled terms should reflect the will of voters The current rules for replacing judges and Council of State members give the governor the power to subvert the will of the people The North Carolina State Constitution should be amended so that appointees are of the same party as the elected officials they are...

For Republicans on the national front, election night was a good night.  Not only did Donald Trump take every toss-up state and likely the popular vote, but Republicans were able to retake the Senate and maintain Congress.  Trump improved his numbers in every state, including deep blue states like New York (11 points), with the...

The 2024 election has come  to pass (apart from a few notable exceptions here in North Carolina, like the NC Supreme Court Race), and with it comes the favorite time of many election analysts: the autopsy. While we won’t have some data available till the county canvass 10 days after the election, this time can...

November 19, 2024 UPDATE While we will have a statewide recount, it appears that incumbent North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs has achieved the unlikely, pulling ahead of Griffin ten days after election day. As of this morning, according to data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE), she leads Griffin by...

When Gov. Roy Cooper announced in 2023 that he was appointing Allison Riggs to the North Carolina Supreme Court to fill the remaining term of retiring justice Michael Morgan, I predicted that she would likely have a short and unhappy tenure on the court, unhappy because she was in the minority and short because she...