Rusty Jacobs, WUNC

In Morehead City on Monday, the group Common Cause said the ballot challenge impacts 391 voters in Carteret County; 197 of those voters are registered Republicans and 150 are senior citizens -- including a 98-year-old in Newport.

N.C. Supreme Court election ballot challenge goes before a panel of the state appeals court Friday

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On Thursday, a small group of military veterans gathered in Raleigh to oppose Republican Jefferson Griffin's bid to toss 65,000 ballots out of his race against Democrat Allison Riggs, an incumbent justice on the high court.

Protesters gathered in Raleigh Monday in support of voters whose ballots are being challenged by Republican Jefferson Griffin in a race for the North Carolina Supreme Court.

'Protect our votes' rally draws hundreds of Riggs supporters in Charlotte

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A rally took place in Charlotte on Monday to protest Republican Jefferson Griffin's efforts to toss out tens of thousands of votes in the North Carolina Supreme Court race.

Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections.

State Elections Director says political climate is tense, urges people to remember that election workers are members of the community

Rusty Jacobs, WUNC

The final votes in this year's political contests will be cast Tuesday as polls across the state remain open until 7:30 p.m. on Election Day.

A ballot-marking machine is seen at an early in-person voting site at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Marshall, N.C. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Voters turned out in record numbers for North Carolina's in-person early voting period

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Altogether, more than 4.4 million voters have already cast in-person and absentee ballots. The last chance for registered North Carolina voters to cast ballots in this year's contests is Tuesday, Election Day.

A woman holds a sample ballot on the second day of early voting at a polling station, October 18, 2024, in Fairview, North Carolina. Despite concerns about early voting access after Hurricane Helene, many local officials reported record turnout for early voting, like in nearby Yancey County.

Early voting ends Saturday and turnout has been strong

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As of Monday, 3.1 million votes had been cast during early voting and with absentee ballots. That adds up to a voter turnout of just under 40%.

Absentee ballots go out Tuesday; FBI is investigating suspicious mailings sent to elections officials

Rusty Jacobs, WUNC

The start of absentee voting in North Carolina got delayed by a couple of weeks. By court order, ballots had be reprinted without Robert F. Kennedy Junior's name on them after he suspended his presidential campaign, backed Donald Trump and wanted off ballots in battleground states.

Judicial panel to arguments in requested dismissal of North Carolina voting district boundaries dispute

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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.

NC poll shows majority of Americans fear AI will be used to influence the presidential election

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

Senate President Pro Tem says state budget is on track so far, will be clearer soon

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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.

NC Supreme Court to hear case Thursday involving false claims of voter fraud in the 2016 race for governor

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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.