Election

The damage caused by Helene in western North Carolina has been estimated to exceed $50 billion dollars. A Blue Ridge Public Radio reporter gives us the latest about the clean-up efforts. Plus, statewide election updates.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ordered the State Board of Elections to stop printing ballots. The mail-in ballots were supposed to start going out Friday. The Court of Appeals instead says the ballots must be re-printed without Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name.

A Republican primary runoff for a North Carolina congressional district could demonstrate yet again the strong influence former President Donald Trump has on GOP politics across the country. Voters on Tuesday will choose between attorneys Kelly Daughtry and Brad Knott in the reconfigured 13th Congressional District.

Through a host of changes to North Carolina elections law, redistricting and a sympathetic state Supreme Court majority, Republican legislators could entrench their hold on power for the next decade.

State House Speaker Tim Moore says the current plan to introduce voter ID this year will make it too easy for voters to cast ballots without a photo identification.

A lawsuit filed this week by several of the N.C. Republican Party's convention delegates calls for a judge to void the results and order a new leadership election.

A string of recent state Supreme Court decisions and proposed changes by Republican lawmakers have elections administrators scrambling ahead of the 2023 municipal elections.

Legislative Republicans have filed a bill aimed at changing the state's law over how the elections board is constituted; the last time they did so the state Supreme Court struck it down.

Republican lawmakers said they are considering ideas about altering such state election laws as same-day registration and absentee-by-mail voting. No measure is imminent.

The North Carolina Supreme Court is revisiting this week whether a previous combination of justices got it wrong three months ago when declaring that the legislature produced illegal district lines tainted by excess partisanship and a photo voter identification law infected with racial bias.