(The Center Square) – Of 118,389 voter registration additions since North Carolina’s primary, net gain is 91.7% independence rather than either of two major political parties or two other recognized parties.

Five non-citizens allegedly voted in the 2024 general election, and one U.S. citizen allegedly attempted to register her non-citizen husband to vote, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday. Of the six newest charges announced, two of the non-citizens charged are facing only misdemeanors. Voter registrations associated with every identified non-citizen voter, whether or not […]

More than 600 U.S. citizens were mistakenly flagged as possible noncitizens and removed from Alaska’s list of active voters earlier this year, the director of the Alaska Division of Elections said Thursday in a letter responding to questions from state lawmakers. Those citizens were among 3,058 people removed from the list after the division compared […]

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump administration on Monday that sought to compel Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to hand over sensitive voter information to the federal government. Colorado was one of 30 states the administration sued for a refusal to supply unredacted voter information. So far, the U.S. Department of […]

Since 1994, the Alaska Republican Party has sent absentee ballot applications to registered voters across the state, urging voters to cast their ballot by mail.  The party continued the process this year, despite denunciations of mail-in voting by President Donald Trump, who has called voting by mail “cheating.” In a mailer sent to some voters […]

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 […]

Throughout my career in journalism, as an editorial writer and now as a columnist, I never seriously considered belonging to a political party. As an opinion writer, those political parties were subjects and sometimes targets but never any place I wanted to call home. My voter registration as an independent was something I wore like […]