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[Election 2024] Results Dashboard for North Carolina
Working in partnership with The Associated Press, Southpoint Access is providing results of the 2024 General Election in North Carolina.
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[Election 2024] What to Watch on Election Day
Polls are open in Durham until 7:30 p.m. By STEVE PEOPLES, AP National Political Writer It’s Election Day. Polls opened Tuesday across the nation and Americans cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election. In a deeply divided nation, the election is a true toss-up between Democrat Kamala
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[Election 2024] SoDu Snapshot: Early Voting Exceeds 2020 Numbers
Nearly 58% of Durham’s 251,785 eligible voters cast ballots during the early voting period, which ended on Nov. 2, exceeding early participation in the 2020 general election. Here’s a quick snapshot of statistics related to early voting, according to the Durham County Board of Elections: * Of the
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[Election 2024] Fight to Finish Will Determine Congressional Control
By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent The final doors are being knocked, ads are blaring and candidates are making a last pitch to voters. Even with the high-energy final push, the races for control of Congress are at a stalemate, essentially a toss-up for the House, and fight to the
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[Election 2024] Robinson Battles on vs. Stein for N.C. Governor's Office
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Addressing over 100 supporters outside an ice cream stand that’s shaped like a giant strawberry, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson battered his Democratic rival for governor and the media, and said he’d keep fighting as their race neared its conclusion.
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Jordan High Students Advocate for LGBTQ+ Rights
During third period on Oct. 29, about 500 students at C.E. Jordan High School left class and walked onto the track to protest North Carolina Senate Bill 49, according to The Falcon Post, Jordan’s school news site. The law, enacted in August 2023 after an override by the
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[Election 2024] Human Nature More Hackable Than Election System
By DAVID KLEPPER and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn’t be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said, thanks to decentralized systems,
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[Raising Durham] Grounding Political Talk in Family Values
On Nov. 7, 2020 – a perfect November day in Durham – my daughter Harper and I sat outside Mad Hatter’s in Durham, enjoying lunch in the autumn sunshine. As we finished eating, a caravan of honking cars zoomed down Main Street, filling the air with cheers and joyful shouts: the
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[Election 2024] SoDu Snapshot: Early Voting Participation Tops 2016 and Growing
Here’s a quick snapshot of early voting in Durham with just a few days left: * 112,712 ballots cast in Durham as of Tuesday, Oct. 29. That’s nearly 45% of Durham County’s 251,290 eligible voters. * Of those, more than 71% of the voters are 41 and
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[Election 2024] Two U.S. House Members Compete for North Carolina Attorney General
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press North Carolina’s next attorney general will be one of two outgoing members of Congress who have represented the Charlotte area on Capitol Hill and previously at the state legislature. Both Democratic U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson and Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop
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[Election 2024] Could A Trump Win Change Mortgage System - and Make Them Pricier?
By R.J. RICO, Associated Press If Donald Trump wins the presidential election, Republicans hope he will fulfill a longstanding GOP goal of privatizing the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been under government control since the Great Recession. But Democrats and some economists warn that, especially
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[Election 2024] Abortion Bans Top of Mind for Young Women Voting in N.C.
By AMANDA SEITZ and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press The TikTok videos haunt 26-year-old Christy Kishbaugh. One seared into her memory shows a young mom talking about how several Idaho emergency rooms rejected her because of the state’s abortion ban, leaving her to bleed for weeks after a miscarriage. Kishbaugh