Voting

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.

A GOP-backed bill in the North Carolina General Assembly would require that mail-in ballots arrive by the close of polls on Election Day to be accepted and counted.

Among the results certified Tuesday were the election of Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd to the U.S. Senate and all 14 of the state’s U.S. House races. The board's executive director says county and state audits substantiated the accuracy of the count.

NextGen America will register students on 17 college campuses across the state — and at hundreds of other schools in battleground states like Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michgan — as they return for the fall semester

The board cited an ongoing investigation into evidence of fraud and other irregularities in the petition process used to seek ballot access for the party.

State law requires bipartisan teams in all 100 counties conduct hand counts among two randomly selected ballot groups. The board says hand and machine counts were identical in 90% of the groups.

In all, 7 states were holding primaries Tuesday.

The ruling stems from a March 28 order by trial judges that struck down a nearly 50-year-old state law that prevents someone convicted of a felony from having voting rights restored while they are still on probation, parole or post-release supervision.

Reuters reports that the GOP official, William Keith Senter, was looking for evidence to support debunked theories that the 2020 election was rigged against former President Donald Trump.

The South Carolina registration was first reported by The Washington Post, which noted that Meadows had been a registered voter simultaneously in three states — the Carolinas and Virginia — until North Carolina removed him from its rolls earlier this month.