RALEIGH (AP) Two election-related bills became North Carolina law June 20, despite Gov. Roy Cooper’s formal objections, as lawmakers completed overriding his vetoes. The House voted by nearly identical party-line margins to override Cooper’s vetoes and enact the Republican-authored bills, ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Senate Republicans began carrying out overrides June 19 on a pair of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes of election-related legislation. Cooper had complained that the bills meddle in elections and continue GOP efforts to reshape the courts. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Republican legislators are moving to try to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes, this time on legislation limiting candidates for new parties and redrawing judicial districts in North Carolina’s two largest counties. The state Senate scheduled votes June 19 ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes add more uncertainty to already unusual state elections this fall for judges and in races where new political parties want to field candidates. Cooper announced June 15 – less than three hours before a ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A judicial remapping plan in which District Court judges in North Carolina’s two most-populated counties will no longer be elected by all county residents has quickly passed the General Assembly and is heading to Gov. Roy Cooper. The ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Republican lawmakers are advancing fragments of a statewide remapping of North Carolina’s judicial election districts in hopes of passing them before candidate filing for judges begins in just over two weeks. A House committee voted late June 1 ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Election districts for Superior Court judges in North Carolina’s largest county would be retooled in response to a decade-old legal ruling in legislation that cleared one General Assembly chamber. The Senate agreed in a party-line vote May 30 to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina legislators have taken another step toward redrawing judicial election districts, although the changes would only apply in the state’s most-populated county. A Senate elections committee voted May 29 to remap boundaries for Superior Court districts in Mecklenburg ...

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