NC Board of Elections

North Carolina's elections board has ousted the agency's executive director after Republicans gained control. The State Board of Elections on Wednesday replaced executive director Karen Brinson Bell with Sam Hayes, the top lawyer for the GOP's House speaker.

Six months after the election, we have a resolution from November's NC Supreme Court race. Plus, what does it mean that the NC election board is now under Republican control?

North Carolina's Republican state auditor has made appointments to a new State Board of Elections because an appeals court said a law can still be enforced while it is challenged by Democratic Gov.

A North Carolina appeals court has ruled that a law stripping the governor's authority to appoint State Board of Elections members can take effect for now.

North Carolina’s elections board has dismissed protests filed by several Republican candidates trailing narrowly in their races last month who have questioned well over 60,000 ballots cast this fall. The Democratic-majority board agreed Wednesday to throw out the protests of GOP Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin and three legislative candidates.

Republican Jefferson Griffin has filed protests challenging more than 60,000 ballots in the race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, in which he currently trails Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by 625 votes

If the margin in a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains below 8,000 votes, the runner-up could demand a recount.

The 2024 presidential contest and other major political races are coming to a climax; North Carolina sits among the most contested of battleground states as the final votes are cast.

North Carolina elections officials say that more than 4.2 million voters cast ballots at early in-person voting sites, with turnout in western counties hit by Hurricane Helene outpacing the rest of the state.

As of Friday, more than 4 million, or 51%, of North Carolina's registered voters had already cast ballots by mail or in-person during the early voting period, which ends Saturday, Nov. 2 at 3 p.m.