NC residents concerned after political group canvases neighborhood questioning their voting status

The group, which local officials say is the North Brunswick Republican Club, was caught last month going door-to-door and making sure the people who voted in 2020 election were alive.

Eliza Sloan, a Brunswick County resident, said her husband voted in the 2020 election using an absentee ballot. He is 100 years old.

"It made me feel very uncomfortable, and after they left it made me feel even more uncomfortable," Sloan told WECT News in February.

Both the Brunswick County Republican and Democratic parties say the group is not associated with them.

"These actions have caused the Republican Party to be attacked as being racist and trying to suppress voter turnout, though the Republican Party had no part in the planning or execution of the event," according to a statement from Bill Moore, chairman of the Brunswick County Republican Party.

The North Carolina GOP advised the independent group to stop using the Republican party's "logo," since they are not affiliated with the party in any way, Moore said.

The Brunswick County Democratic Party accused the leader of the North Brunswick Republican Club, Allison Dunlap, of organizing canvassers to harass voters.

"These voter vigilantes are still trying to find evidence of 2020 election fraud, but more importantly, they are engaging in underhanded voter intimidation tactics," a statement from the local democratic party read.

When WECT's Zach Solon reached out to Dunlap for comment, she said the club did not organize the canvassing and directed Solon to a group called the NC Audit Force. Solon reached out to the group through Facebook and has not yet heard back.