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RALEIGH — State Republicans and Democrats should hold onto their money until they know the Democratic nominee for president, Anna Beavon Gravely, executive director of N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation, said during a post-primary briefing.

ROCKINGHAM — A candidate trying to get on the ballot as an unaffiliated candidate didn’t get the required signatures needed.

ROCKINGHAM — As Richmond County poll workers were setting up voting locations ahead of the Super Tuesday primary election, the field of candidates for one major political party narrowed even more.

Raleigh — The State Board of Elections is reminding voters that North Carolina law prohibits taking photographs of or videotaping voted ballots. 

RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper raised $605,649 — 7% of his 2019 campaign funds — from residents of New York and California, based on a Carolina Journal analysis of his campaign finance reports. But details about Cooper’s fundraising trips to those states are hard to come by.

RALEIGH — A second court has blocked voter ID in North Carolina — a move policymakers and analysts denounce as riddled with substantive and procedural problems.

RALEIGH — The in-person early voting period for the 2020 primary election begins Thursday, Feb. 13, and ends Saturday, Feb. 29.

RALEIGH — More than a year has passed since North Carolina voters adopted a constitutional amendment requiring voters to present state-approved identification documents at the polls. The General Assembly later passed a law setting the rules for allowable IDs.

ROCKINGHAM — Voters will soon be able to decide which candidates of their political parties will move forward to the General Election in November.

RALEIGH — The Republican and Democratic candidates for state superintendent had similar positions on the causes of school re-segregation and the need to find common ground.