Election Fraud

A law enacted last year requires 10 counties to test software for verifying voters' signatures on absentee ballot envelopes.

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders will appeal the decision by judges that declared the GOP’s changes to how elections board members are chosen violate the state constitution while taking power from the governor.

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.

WUNC's Rusty Jacobs observes the county canvass, the painstaking process that results in the final tally of votes

Four people have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for their roles in absentee ballot fraud in rural North Carolina during the 2016 and 2018 elections.

A statewide tour of election experts wants to counter misinformation among North Carolina voters ahead of the 2022 midterms.

The family of Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. and a friend confirmed he died Sunday at his daughter's Bladen County home. The friend told The Associated Press that Dowless had been diagnosed with an advanced form of lung cancer.

An elections board in a North Carolina county has removed Mark Meadows, a former chief of staff to President Donald Trump, from its list of registered voters after documents showed he lived in Virginia and voted in the 2021 election there.

A North Carolina judge has set a trial date next summer for a political operative accused of ballot fraud involving a 2018 congressional election whose results ultimately got thrown out.

A GOP-backed elections bill would eliminate a three-day grace period for counting properly postmarked mail-in ballots.