Press Releases

The State Board of Elections will hold a public meeting (emergency session) by teleconference on Sunday, August 7, 2016, at 10:00 p.m.

The State Board of Elections will hold an emergency public meeting by teleconference on Saturday, March 12, 2016, at 9:00 a.m.

With election day less than a week away, the State Board of Elections is reminding journalists and the public of guidelines for filming at polling locations.

The State Board of Elections will hold a public meeting by teleconference on Thursday, March 10, 2016, at 10:00 a.m.

The State Board of Elections will hold a public meeting by teleconference on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, at 11:00 a.m.

The U.S. Supreme Court today stayed a federal appeals court order that would have enjoined parts of North Carolina’s new voting law regarding same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. 

The Fourth Circuit today reinstated same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting ahead of the General Election in November.  A divided panel ordered the lower court to enjoin enforcement of new election procedures that eliminated same-day registration and required that a voter cast her ballot in her properly assigned precinct.  Judge Diana Gribbon Motz dissented.