In this letter to the State Board of Elections, dated July 31, 2009, Bev Perdue’s campaign treasurer Oscar N. Harris refers to a letter the campaign wrote to the State Board of Elections dated January 25, 2008.
The July 2009 letter states that the January 2008 letter explains that the [...]
N.C. Republican Party Chairman Tom Fetzer said last week's disclosure of five more unreported, free flights taken by Gov. Bev Perdue provide more reason to investigate her campaign finances.
Fetzer filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections in October asking for an investigation of [...]
Correspondence from the Perdue Campaign to the State Board of Elections revealed that there are 6 more flights that were previously unreported. Four of the newly reported flights (2 in 2004, 1 in 2005 and 1 in 2006) were provided by Raleigh attorney Terence McEnally III. McEnally bought the local newspaper La Conexion in [...]
Folks in the state progressive community should take note today of the ten-year anniversary of the reform coalition known as N.C. Voters for Clean Elections. The group, whose director Chase Foster is a regular contributor to the Progressive Pulse, has produced an impressive and [...]
Sixty-one days.
In sixty-one days, the filing period will begin for races including the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, the state Senate, the state House, county commissioners, and other public offices in this great state of North Carolina.
On Feb. 8, county Board of Elections, from Murphy to Manteo, will open up [...]
The State Board of Elections will call Ruffin Poole to testify next week about the campaign finances of former Gov. Mike Easley.
Poole was called to testify in the board's October hearings, but a judge quashed the subpoena. The N.C. Court of Appeals overruled that decision [...]
You might remember a month ago after the Republicans swept the Wake County School Board elections that Clay Aiken came out and publicly denounced their plans to do away with “diversity” busing. His words caused him a minor controversy of his own as he was outed (yet again) as still [...]
The News & Observer reports that singer Clay Aiken calls the challenge to his voter registration a “technical dispute.” Well, yes, issues of compliance with the law are, indeed, “technical.” The Wake County Board of Elections will handle the issue in a hearing this morning.
His registration aside, Clay [...]
Dozens of supporters of President Barack Obama will gather in Raleigh and Charlotte Saturday for training in ways to support Obama on issues such as health care and in future elections.
The workshops are designed to train volunteers to lead "Rapid Response Teams" that can activate people to lobby Congress [...]
The extra eyeballs at the N.C. State Board of Elections are catching errors on some very recognizable campaign finance reports.
Over the past several months, elections officials have asked for missing information from the campaigns of Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, Senate Republican Leader [...]
Triad Watch breaks the story on the State Board of Elections’ audit of Sen. Phil Berger’s campaign finance reports; the N&R follows up.
[...]The winner of the inaugural Bad Bill of the Year tournament is — SB 848.
This bill would allow illegal immigrants access to community colleges and the university system, sponsored by Sen. Charlie Albertson (D-Duplin).
It cruised to victory over the other finalist, HB 120 — public financing of municipal elections — [...]
Claude E. Pope, Jr, Chairman of the Wake County Republican Party, Friday, filed a Notice of Challenge with the Wake County Board of Elections, challenging the right of Clayton H. "Clay" Aiken to remain registered to vote in Wake County.
“It has come to light [...]
It appears that there are some within the NC GOP that want to go back to the days of excluding unaffiliated voters from the party’s primary elections. This would be a bad idea for a number of reasons.
1. The numbers of voters registering as unaffiliated is exploding. Just in [...]
It is too easy to cheat in North Carolina Elections – just ask Clay Aiken.
In North Carolina, voters are required to sign an Authorization to Vote form before they are handed a ballot – the wording goes something like this:
I hereby certify that the address listed on the label is [...]
Campaign finance watchdog Joe Sinsheimer is urging Gov. Bev Perdue to remove Ruffin Poole, a former top aide to Gov. Mike Easley, from the Golden LEAF board because he refused to testify at last month's state elections board hearing.
Sinsheimer, a Democratic political consultant who has [...]
The reform candidates who take their seats on the Wake County school board next month may not be done with pushing for change, reports Carolina Journal’s David Bass. Are countywide elections next?
In the past, critics have argued that at-large races and a revision of the elections schedule could have [...]
