Democrat Governor Secures Control of Election Board in NC Court Ruling Against GOP

Published on March 13, 2024

A three-judge panel has sided with North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper to strike down a Republican-sponsored law that would have removed the governor’s authority to appoint members of the state’s board of elections and granted it to elected representatives in the state’s Legislature. In a 7-page order filed on March 11 at North Carolina’s Wake County Superior Court, a panel of three judges—two Republicans and one Democrat—sided with Mr. Cooper in finding that the GOP-enacted law is unconstitutional. Republicans billed the law, SB 749 or the No Partisan Advantage in Elections Act, as an election integrity measure that would establish bipartisan election boards instead of state and county boards being controlled by the party of the governor....

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