Press Releases

Municipal elections will be held Tuesday (November 5) in 92 North Carolina counties, where voters will choose mayors, other local elected officials and referendums.

State Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell on Friday approved 49 additional types of student and employee photo identification for use in the 2020 elections.

The State Board of Elections is reminding colleges and universities, charter schools and state and local governments about upcoming deadlines to submit applications for their IDs to be eligible for use by voters in 2020.

The State Board of Elections on Thursday launched a campaign to inform voters about the many ways North Carolina elections officials and their security partners safeguard elections, and to empower voters to take an active role in the process.

The State Board of Elections will hold a telephonic meeting beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, October 18, 2019.

The State Board of Elections will hold an in-person meeting beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 1, 2019, in the agency’s boardroom on the third floor of the Dobbs Building, 430 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh.

The State Board of Elections will hold a telephonic meeting beginning at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, September 10, 2019.

The State Board of Elections will conduct regional public demonstrations of newly certified voting systems this month in five locations across North Carolina.

Tuesday (September 10) is Election Day for voters in North Carolina’s 3rd and 9th Congressional Districts, as well as the primary for city of Charlotte municipal elections.

Exercising her statutory emergency powers, State Board Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell on Saturday issued an order mandating one-stop early voting hours on Sunday in the following 3rd Congressional District counties affected by Hurricane Dorian: Camden, Currituck, Dare, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell.