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After you vote, here's how an election works
Got questions about the backend of a North Carolina election? We've got answers.
Tags: voting, early voting, 2020 elections, absentee ballot
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Nearly quarter of state's early voters didn't cast ballots in NC in 2016
About 45 percent of North Carolina's registered voters have already cast ballots in this year's elections, and a sizable chunk of them weren't part of the process four years ago.
Tags: early voting, 2020 elections, absentee ballot
Special Features
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Voting absentee? Learn more about candidates on ballot
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Final update: Gov. Roy Cooper campaign promise tracker
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TheWrap@NCCapitol podcast
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How you can track the money funding political ads on NC airwaves
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How can you follow @NCCapitol? Let us count the ways
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How NC's new legislative maps measure up
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Key dates in the investigation of North Carolina billionaire political donor
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Did NC redistricting affect your ballot? Find out here
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How fair are NC's voting maps? Check the math
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Job Promise Explorer
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How money flows into elections
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Redistricting power on the ballot in NC General Assembly elections
Democrats promise changes to the redistricting process if they get majorities, but with map making set to begin next year, how strong and how detailed is that pledge?
Tags: 2020 elections, redistricting, General Assembly
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From Forest, a promise to protect senior citizens from COVID, but no details
Lt. Gov. Dan Forest talks about protecting the vulnerable, but he won't answer questions about how he would do that if elected governor, and he hasn't reached out to advocacy groups.
Tags: Dan Forest, nursing home, coronavirus, 2020 elections
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Six months after request, NC has not provided unemployment office records
WRAL News is seeking emails between the Division of Employment Security's former head and key members of Gov. Roy Cooper's administration.
Tags: public records, unemployment, Department of Commerce, coronavirus economy, coronavirus
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Trump, Biden campaigns working to get Latino supporters in NC to polls
With the first week of early voting complete in North Carolina, both presidential campaigns are hitting the airwaves with new Spanish language ads.
Tags: Latino community, 2020 presidential election
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With court rulings clarifying NC mail voting rules, how to make sure your ballot counts
After months of legislative and legal fights over the rules for absentee-by-mail voting, North Carolina finally has some clarity two weeks before Election Day.
Tags: absentee ballot, 2020 elections, NC Watchdog Reporting Network
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NC will be ahead of curve on tallying votes on election night
With two weeks to go until Election Day, more than a quarter of all voters in North Carolina have already cast their ballots.
Tags: State Board of Elections, voting, early voting, absentee ballot
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NC laws protect voters against most intimidation efforts
Election observers are recruited and trained by the parties. The most lethal thing observers carry is a clipboard. They're prohibited from speaking to or photographing voters.
Tags: voting, poll workers
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NC political donor heads to prison Tuesday in bribery case
Greg Lindberg is also publishing a book to help people "lead a life of rational determination to achieve your burning desire."
Tags: Greg Lindberg, campaign finance, crime
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Agreement reached: Mail-in ballots without witness signatures won't count in NC
Voters can still cast a new ballot. How long the Postal Service will have to return ballots by mail, though, is still in flux.
Tags: absentee ballot, 2020 elections
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NC among last states to make death records electronic
Death in North Carolina will soon involve a lot less paperwork, addressing an issue that delays COVID-19 stats.
Tags: death, NC Watchdog Reporting Network, Department of Health and Human Services, coronavirus government
Politifact
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Fact check: Biden ad says Trump would slash Medicare benefits
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Fact check: Trump falsely says national debt declining before the pandemic
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Fact-checking the final presidential debate, from health care to immigration to coronavirus
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Fact-checking final presidential debate
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Looking at claims about Hunter Biden, and the Senate GOP report that helped fuel them
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Fact-checking claim on Amy Coney Barrett and a racial slur in the workplace
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Fact check: No, the WHO didn't 'admit' Trump was right about lockdowns
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Fact check: 15 things Trump says Biden would ban, abolish or destroy
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Fact check: Biden falsely says Trump 'eliminated' funding for community policing
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Fact-checking Donald Trump, Joe Biden in head-to-head town halls
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Fact check: Is Cooper right about North Carolina, Georgia COVID-19 numbers?
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Fact check: Biden falsely says Barrett confirmation 'unconstitutional'
State Politics Video
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New NC residents, new voters drawn to 2020 election
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Full interview: Tillis discusses Supreme Court, Affordable Care Act, pandemic relief
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'It's basic journalism,' prize-winning reporter says of reports raising questions about NC candidate
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NC Latino voters could hold outsized role in presidential election
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NC set to tally all mail, in-person early votes on election night
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Full interview: Tillis on pandemic relief, Fauci, Senate campaign
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Voters can fix their ballot errors
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On the Record, Oct. 16: Legislative races across North Carolina
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Latinx community faces voting challenges in North Carolina
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Raleigh man in line two hours before polling site opens
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Voters line up in rain for second day of early voting
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Thousands turn out on first day of early voting
State Politics
- Cunningham keeps low in NC Senate race marked by his affair
- Appeals court lets North Carolina keep absentee deadline extension
- Cunningham outraises Tillis, enters October with less cash
- Judge: North Carolina must strengthen absentee witness rule
- Judge rejects NC political donor's prison delay request
- Former NC House member Moffitt appointed to chamber return
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Voter Resources
- Report a problem at the polls
- Trump, Biden hold final presidential debate, with live fact-checking by WRAL, PolitiFact
- Check your registration, find early voting locations and polling sites
- No trick: Early voting ends Saturday
- Here's all you need to know about the candidates running for Wake County Board of Commissioners
- 5 On Your Side: Voting questions answered
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