It may or may not be apocryphal, but there is an infamous World War II era quote attributed to Russian dictator Josef Stalin in which he responded to the suggestion that the leader of the Catholic church might be able to use his moral influence to help resolve a portion of the conflict. “The Pope?” […]
Sunday voting is declining in North Carolina, with counties that had some Sunday hours during early voting for the 2022 midterm elections deciding to eliminate them this year. The state Board of Elections approved early voting plans for 80 counties where local boards voted unanimously on days and hours. Of those, about a dozen had […]
Last fall, Republicans on at least two county boards of elections in North Carolina received instructions on how to fire their executive directors. Instead of getting advice from the state elections director or legal staff at the state office that generally serves as a resource for county boards, they received the information from Dallas Woodhouse, […]
A left-leaning nonprofit says North Carolina Auditor Dave Boliek’s office is failing to comply with the state’s public records laws in the wake of the resignation of its controversial former employee. After the nonprofit organization, American Oversight, filed public records requests with the state Auditor’s office for communications to and from then-elections liaison Dallas Woodhouse, […]
The NC Senate moved swiftly to pass two elections bills Tuesday that would alter many aspects of voting from registration to ballot counting. Republicans said the changes would enhance election security and improve election administration. House Bill 834 focused mostly on ballot counting and voters supplying missing signatures. It passed the Senate unanimously. Most of […]
North Carolina Auditor Dave Boliek may not have wanted to hog the headlines in a year when he isn’t on the ballot. But thanks to his recent actions to weaponize GOP majorities on elections boards to push anti-democratic rules and early voting changes, Boliek is making quite a name for himself ahead of the midterms. When he […]
(The Center Square) – Embracing artificial intelligence wasn’t just a way to do business when Dave Boliek stepped into the auditor’s office for North Carolina.
(Carolina Journal) – Thirty years and $61 million later, the Mid-Currituck Bridge project creating a second crossing over the Currituck Sound with the goal of alleviating congestion during the peak summer tourism season and improve the flow of evacuation traffic in the event of a hurricane has gone nowhere.
(The Center Square) – More than $47 million in unemployment benefit overpayments fraud in the last 15 years, including eight with U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper as North Carolina’s governor, has been uncovered in an audit.
