North Carolina woman running 'can't win' state senate campaign against gerrymandering
2 months ago

North Carolina woman running 'can't win' state senate campaign against gerrymandering

Raw Story  

A North Carolina woman is running a self-described "built to lose" campaign for a state senate seat in a bid to draw attention to anti-democratic partisan gerrymandering. Kate Barr, a 42-year-old mother of two, is a Democrat running for North Carolina's 37th Senate District, a seat she says she cannot win because it "is so gerrymandered that I don't stand a chance." Last year, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in favor of partisan gerrymandering in what voting rights advocates called a "blatant attack on democracy." Anderson Clayton, who chairs the North Carolina Democratic Party, told the Post that "gerrymandering is a form of voter suppression in every single way, shape, and form."

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North Carolina elections chief wants senator to take back comment about vote manipulation
1 month ago

North Carolina elections chief wants senator to take back comment about vote manipulation

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina State Board of Elections’ top administrator asked a powerful legislator on Thursday to retract a comment that he made suggesting this month’s results were being manipulated, saying it could lead to threats against local election workers. What you say matters,” Karen Brinson Bell, the board’s executive director, wrote state Senate leader Phil Berger in …

Many voters in swing-state North Carolina are disengaged. Party activists hope to fire them up
6 months, 1 week ago

Many voters in swing-state North Carolina are disengaged. Party activists hope to fire them up

Associated Press  

OXFORD, N.C. — She opens the door wearing a gray tank top, Hello Kitty pajama pants and pink fuzzy slippers. “The question is: How big do they lose?” Challenges for North Carolina Democrats Rural voters are an important part of Biden’s campaign in North Carolina, according to North Carolina communications director Dory MacMillan. Both the state party and Trump’s campaign …

South Carolina to hold 2024 congressional elections with map previously ruled unconstitutional
8 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina to hold 2024 congressional elections with map previously ruled unconstitutional

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal court on Thursday ruled that this year’s congressional elections in South Carolina will be held under a map that it had already deemed unconstitutional and discriminatory against Black voters, with time running out ahead of voting deadlines and a lack of a decision on the case by the Supreme Court. After South Carolina’s Legislature, which …

North Carolina is among GOP states to change its voting rules. The primary will be a test
9 months, 3 weeks ago

North Carolina is among GOP states to change its voting rules. The primary will be a test

Associated Press  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — North Carolina’s Super Tuesday ballot has plenty to draw voters, with primaries for governor and president in a swing state that will be among the most closely watched in November. “In North Carolina, we’ve had an election system that has been tried and true,” said state Rep. Allen Buansi, a Democrat from Chapel Hill. Jeronica Dickenson, left, …

New North Carolina state Senate districts remain in place as judge refuses to block their use
10 months, 3 weeks ago

New North Carolina state Senate districts remain in place as judge refuses to block their use

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A judge refused Friday to prevent the use of two North Carolina Senate districts drawn by Republican legislators starting with the 2024 elections and to order them replaced with boundaries that lawsuit plaintiffs argue would more likely ensure Black voters can elect a preferred candidate in one of them. U.S. District Judge James Dever denied a preliminary …

No reelection campaign for Democratic representative after North Carolina GOP redrew U.S. House map
1 year ago

No reelection campaign for Democratic representative after North Carolina GOP redrew U.S. House map

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. A second-term Democratic congresswoman will not seek reelection to the U.S. House under the North Carolina General Assembly’s new redistricting maps. It’s one of four challenged earlier this week by Black and Latino voters in a federal lawsuit alleging the new map weakens minority voting power to strengthen “the state’s …

New North Carolina congressional districts challenged in federal court on racial bias claims
1 year ago

New North Carolina congressional districts challenged in federal court on racial bias claims

Associated Press  

N.C. — North Carolina Black and Latino voters sued in federal court on Monday seeking to strike down congressional districts drawn this fall by Republican state legislators that they argue weaken minority voting power in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in central North Carolina challenges four districts where the plaintiffs contend GOP leaders …

Black voters file federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina Senate map
1 year, 1 month ago

Black voters file federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina Senate map

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A lawsuit filed Monday in North Carolina alleges newly adopted district boundaries for the state Senate divide a cluster of predominantly Black counties in the northeast corner of the state in a way that unfairly dilutes the voting power of Black residents. Plaintiffs Rodney Pierce, a social studies teacher from Halifax County, and Moses Matthews, a retired …

North Carolina Republicans put exclamation mark on pivotal annual session with redistricting maps
1 year, 1 month ago

North Carolina Republicans put exclamation mark on pivotal annual session with redistricting maps

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to new redistricting maps poised to empower the state GOP for years to come. Legislative Republicans have worked to place a “very deliberative stamp” on North Carolina since they took control in 2011, said Catawba College political science professor Michael Bitzer. The “issues that we’re seeing focused on …

North Carolina Republicans pitch Congress maps that could help them pick up 3 or 4 seats next year
1 year, 2 months ago

North Carolina Republicans pitch Congress maps that could help them pick up 3 or 4 seats next year

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans on Wednesday pitched new maps for the state’s congressional districts starting in 2024 that appear to threaten the reelection of at least three current Democratic U.S. House members. Senate redistricting committee leaders introduced two proposals that would rework the boundary lines for the state’s 14 U.S. House seats. “That’s a hard decision for the …

North Carolina Republicans enact voting changes that weaken governor’s ability to oversee elections
1 year, 2 months ago

North Carolina Republicans enact voting changes that weaken governor’s ability to oversee elections

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans enacted vote-count restrictions and weakened the governor’s ability to oversee elections on Tuesday by overriding Democratic Gov. One new North Carolina law would eliminate the governor’s power to appoint the State Board of Elections and give it to legislative leaders, while the other would end a three-day grace period to receive and count absentee …

North Carolina Republicans seek control over state and local election boards ahead of 2024
1 year, 3 months ago

North Carolina Republicans seek control over state and local election boards ahead of 2024

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republicans who control the North Carolina legislature with veto-proof majorities are close to wresting supervision of elections from the governor and the governor’s party — almost always the Democrats for over a century. Republicans say the current makeup of the state and local boards means decisions on contentious election matters fall to what the governor’s party wants, …

Republican legislatures flex muscles to keep power in closely divided North Carolina and Wisconsin
1 year, 3 months ago

Republican legislatures flex muscles to keep power in closely divided North Carolina and Wisconsin

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — In 2020, North Carolina seemed the model of an evenly-divided swing state. Even last year, as Republicans won two seats on the state Supreme Court, North Carolina’s congressional delegation split evenly between Democrats and the GOP. FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, who is being targeted for possible impeachment by Republican lawmakers, attends her first …

Anderson Clayton: The 25-year-old party chairwoman who wants to turn North Carolina blue
1 year, 6 months ago

Anderson Clayton: The 25-year-old party chairwoman who wants to turn North Carolina blue

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “They have to win North Carolina,” Ms Clayton said, noting how the last time …

North Carolina gerrymander ruling gives electoral gift to GOP in Congress
1 year, 6 months ago

North Carolina gerrymander ruling gives electoral gift to GOP in Congress

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina redistricting ruling has set up a possible electoral windfall for congressional Republicans in preserving their U.S. House majority next year, declaring that judges should stay out of scrutinizing seat boundaries for partisan advantage. “The Republicans don’t have a blank check, but there’s a lot in the bank account.” While North Carolina Republicans don’t have …

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

Slate  

On Tuesday night, over the cries of hundreds of protesters, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina overrode the Democratic governor’s veto to enact an unpopular 12-week abortion ban, a bill that they refused to debate in a public hearing. Barber said that he began this work after the Legislature’s “mean-spirited quadruple attack” on poor people: raising taxes on working-class families, cutting …

NC legislature election to decide extent of Republican power
2 years, 1 month ago

NC legislature election to decide extent of Republican power

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans aimed for super-sized control of the legislature for the next two years in Tuesday’s election, while Democrats led by Gov. Republicans are seeking at least two additional Senate seats and three House seats compared to their current tallies to give them veto-proof majorities in each chamber come January for the first time since late …

North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down redistricting maps
2 years, 10 months ago

North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down redistricting maps

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A divided North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state’s new maps for congressional and General Assembly seats Friday, declaring that state courts had authority to throw out lines engineered to secure a long-term Republican advantage in an otherwise closely divided state. The court’s decision reversed a ruling last month from a panel of three trial judges …

NC math experts, voters sue over US House, legislative lines
3 years, 1 month ago

NC math experts, voters sue over US House, legislative lines

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Another lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s latest round of redistricting has been filed, this time by a conservation group, university mathematicians and voters who accuse Republican mapmakers of illegal partisan and racial gerrymandering. Rather, they “support fair maps drawn with advanced science and technology that preserve every North Carolinian’s right to vote in free elections on equal terms …

North Carolina sued over newly passed maps favoring GOP
3 years, 1 month ago

North Carolina sued over newly passed maps favoring GOP

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Barely 24 hours after their passage, North Carolina’s newly drawn maps are facing another legal complaint that will likely determine how much Republicans can expand their political clout over the coming decade in a state that is slowly becoming more blue. During a virtual event on Twitter, Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, called North Carolina’s maps “a …

North Carolina legislators finalize redistricting maps
3 years, 1 month ago

North Carolina legislators finalize redistricting maps

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly completed redistricting maps Thursday for the next decade, carving boundaries that would likely give Republicans at least two more U.S. House seats and help the GOP retain its state legislative majorities. People don’t want packing — that’s what we’re doing.” The state NAACP and others already sued in state court last week, …

NC Republicans celebrate preserving legislative majorities
4 years, 1 month ago

NC Republicans celebrate preserving legislative majorities

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans on Wednesday celebrated hanging on to their majorities in both General Assembly chambers after withstanding a massive effort by Democrats locally and nationally to wrest control before the next round of state and congressional redistricting. “I want to thank the voters of North Carolina for the vote of confidence that they’ve placed in Republican …

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