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Some county election officials in NC promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 outcome and the Jan. 6 riot (opens the original)
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Local election board members across North Carolina have promoted conspiracy theories, including the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Donald Trump. Some who shared false claims even chair county election boards, which make important decisions about Sunday voting, polling locations and voting hours. Traditionally, election administration in North Carolina was largely a nonpartisan, uncontroversial job. But since Trump repeatedly claimed his loss in 2020 to former P
An ICE facility could change this small town in Eastern North Carolina (opens the original)
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Winton, North Carolina, looks like many small towns in the eastern part of the state. Main Street is just a few businesses, some churches, a town hall and a post office. Already small, the town has shrunken even more over the last few decades. Main Street is mostly empty with a car, truck or golf cart breaking the silence with a slow roll down the road that leads to the Chowan River. About two miles from downtown, a huge, gray complex sits empty. A few construction workers mill about in front of
Ryan Oehrli (opens the original)
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Ryan Oehrli is a statewide accountability reporter at NC Local. Before joining Report for America, Oehrli reported on criminal justice at The Charlotte Observer, public safety at the Asheville Citizen Times, and other beats at several Mississippi outlets. Oehrli covered Border Patrol and ICE operations, the killing of Iryna Zarutska and North Carolina’s pardon system, among other issues. In 2025, with colleagues at the Observer and the News & Observer in Raleigh, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist
Citing possible investigation, NC elections board declines to name allegedly dead voters (opens the original)
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The North Carolina State Board of Elections has declined to release the names of thousands of dead people reportedly found on voter rolls, in part because there might be “subsequent investigations or prosecutions” over “fraudulent votes.” The lack of transparency means North Carolina voters at present have no way to verify if they have been inaccurately flagged as deceased and are subject to removal from voter rolls. "We are checking the list against databases and information available to the St
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