Press Releases

Joshua Malcolm, chairman of the State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement, issued a letter this week directing agency staff to review and post materials associated with the investigation into election processes in certain counties within the 9th Congressional District. 

In a bipartisan decision Friday, the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement decided to hold a public evidentiary hearing into claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities related to absentee by-mail voting and potentially other matters in the 9th Congressional District contest. The State Board has not certified results in that race.

The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement will reconvene its meeting of Tuesday, November 27 by teleconference at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, November 30 at the below dial-in.

The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement will hold a hearing and conduct State canvass at a meeting beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.

The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement will hold a telephonic meeting at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, using the below dial-in.

The State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement has received reports that ballots in some precincts in Wake County and other areas cannot be fed through tabulators.

The State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement on Tuesday (November 6) extended voting at two polling places in North Carolina after temporary voting disruptions at those sites earlier in the day.

The State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement offers the following 10 tips for voters as they head to the polls on Election Day – Tuesday, November 6.

With several days of in-person early voting remaining, ballots cast so far in the 2018 general election already have exceeded all ballots cast early during the 2014 midterm election.

The State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement is reminding voters using paper ballots to read the ballot instructions carefully and be sure to vote for the correct number of candidates in each contest. Voters with questions about the instructions should ask a poll worker for help.