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A crowd gathers at the rally of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Harris visits Raleigh, Trump visits Rocky Mount as campaigns appeal to swing state voters

November 1, 2024 Ava Mayo

Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Donald Trump are making multiple visits to North Carolina in the campaign’s closing days.

Doug Emhoff and Maya Harris urge students to vote Democratic at Carrboro event

October 25, 2024 Ava Mayo

Kamala Harris’s husband and sister appeared at the Cat’s Cradle as part of a day of campaigning in the Triangle.

Reversing an earlier ruling, an NC court has blocked the use of digital OneCards as voter IDs

October 4, 2024 Ava Mayo

In August, the NC Board of Elections announced that UNC’s digital ID would be allowed at the polls as a voter ID. But state and national Republicans challenged the decision, and now the NC Court of Appeals has sided with the GOP.

A lawsuit over a ‘ballot selfie’ could be a test of the First Amendment

September 20, 2024 Ava Mayo

Should a selfie of a ballot be protected as political speech? That’s the question at the center of a lawsuit against the North Carolina Board of Elections.

GOP sues to stop digital OneCards from being used as voter IDs

September 13, 2024 Ava Mayo

Though a growing number of UNC students have transitioned to digital ID cards on their phones, the suit argues that the state voter ID law allows only for physical cards.