Republicans in North Carolina who control state and county election boards have attempted to move early voting sites off college campuses and reduce Sunday voting, which officials in both parties called a blatant attempt to make it harder for students and Black voters to cast ballots.
In Jackson, Pasquotank and Wake Counties, these Republicans pressured local election officials to move early voting sites away from college campuses, which are full of younger voters who tend to vote Democratic. They also instructed the officials in Pasquotank to end Sunday voting, which is popular among Black voters.
Democrats and voting rights groups say the changes are the result of pressure from the Republican state auditor, Dave Boliek, whose office has controlled the makeup of state and county election boards in North Carolina since 2024, when the legislature stripped that power from Governor-elect Josh Stein, a Democrat. --
NYT
