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North Carolina's elections director, Karen Brinson Bell, addressed a joint legislative oversight committee on the challenges the state faces this year as major election law changes, such as the photo ID requirement, take effect.

The bill would trigger major changes, including eliminating a three-day grace period for counting mail-in ballots.

Sweeping changes to North Carolina elections law have been approved in a party-line vote in the state Senate. The legislation now heads to the House.

A GOP-backed bill in the North Carolina General Assembly would require that mail-in ballots arrive by the close of polls on Election Day to be accepted and counted.

North Carolina voters will make important decisions at the polls this year.

A federal judge has blocked North Carolina laws that greatly restrict who can help people with disabilities request absentee ballots, fill them out and return them.

North Carolina Republicans advanced a number of proposals on Wednesday that voting rights groups fear could reduce turnout for the 2022 midterm elections.

Mail-in absentee ballots in North Carolina would have to be received by the day of the election, under a Republican-backed bill that cleared a divided Senate committee on Wednesday.

AP found the rate of ballot rejections was actually lower in November than during last year’s primaries in several politically pivotal states despite an increase in the total number of mailed ballots cast.

Over 5 million North Carolinians cast ballots in this year’s election, many of them opting for mail-in and early onsite voting. While there is still a lot…