Rusty Jacobs, WUNC

A group of plaintiffs led by former State Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr says some Congressional and state legislative districts were so heavily manipulated that they violate North Carolinians' un-enumerated right to free and fair elections.

Seventy-eight percent of Americans say AI-generated disinformation will affect the rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger told reporters lawmakers will have a better sense in a couple of weeks of whether the budget process will, in his words, "go off the rails" or stay on target for completion by the start of the fiscal year on July 1st.

Claims of fraud like double voting against duly registered North Carolina voters turned out to be false. The state Court of Appeals ruled in 2021 the lawyers and committee behind the false claims were not immune from defamation lawsuits.

Western Carolina University Political Science Professor Chris Cooper says young voter turnout this year could swing outcomes in tight statewide races for attorney general, governor, and president.

While primary votes have been cast in North Carolina, election administrators still have a lot of work to do. Over the next 10 days, county elections boards will go through the vote certification process.

Early in-person voting starts Thursday. For many North Carolina voters it will be the first time they cast a ballot under a photo ID law drafted in 2018.

Requested absentee ballots started getting sent out on January 19th.

Jill Biden will makes stop by Forsyth Technical Community College to talk about the economy. Her visit marks the third high-profile visit by the White House in recent weeks.

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of Black voters and groups like the NAACP accuses North Carolina lawmakers of drawing racially biased state legislative and Congressional maps.