Telling kids on Christmas Eve that they have to be patient to find out what gifts they might receive doesn’t make them happy. The same idea didn’t make many adults happy on election night 2020, either. For 100 years, media of many kinds tried to be the first with the […]
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President Donald Trump prematurely, and falsely, said early Wednesday that he won re-election for president, and called for the counting of ballots in the United States to cease. “This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country,” Trump said in remarks from the East […]
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Elections officials across the country are warning Americans not to anticipate final election results on Election Night, but also reminding us that it won’t be the first time in our nation’s history that it’s taken days, even weeks to call a presidential race. But, in the meantime, dozens of other […]
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I have been excited to vote since I was 15. That’s when a candidate for statewide office hosted an event my U.S. History class attended – the class where government became personal for me. During that visit, I was noticed and heard by someone who would eventually go on to […]
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During last month’s presidential debate, President Trump encouraged his supporters to, “go to the polls and watch very closely.” His call to action was followed by claims that voter fraud was already occurring this election cycle, citing alleged examples in Pennsylvania and West Virginia that were debunked within days by […]
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Tracking and other measures implemented in recent years should prevent repeat of ballot-harvesting exposed during 2018 election cycle. Worried about voting by mail? Or that North Carolina’s by-mail voting system is ripe for fraud? Don’t be. All over the state, election workers are doing what Lori Huskins did Monday in the Mitchell […]
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