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4 days agoA Familiar Face Files to Run for Nancy Mace's Congressional Seat: It's Time'
Mark Sanford is running for the congressional seat previously held by Nancy Mace amid a crowded GOP primary.
"This decision will have devastating consequences for our electoral system for decades to come," said Adrianne Spoto, Counsel for Voting Rights at SCSJ. "When young voters casting their first ballots see them rejected for technical snafus, it creates a disincentive for future participation."
Armed and masked DHS agents, including ICE, CBP, and USBP, have roamed Charlotte, Durham, Raleigh, and other communities, arresting and detaining people indiscriminately without warrants or legal justification. Despite public outcry, DHS violence has persisted.
Just weeks before early voting began, the North Carolina State Board of Elections sent letters to more than 241,000 registered voters notifying them that they did not have a driver's license number or partial Social Security number in their voter registration file that was validated when matched to government databases. The board acknowledged that mismatches were frequently caused by minor discrepancies - hyphens, apostrophes, name changes, typos - with no bearing on voter eligibility.
The report says Mace consistently 'requested and received the maximum allowable reimbursement' from a program meant to help House members pay their D.C. living costs. An OCC review of invoices, utility bills and other documents 'identified discrepancies between the amounts requested and received by Rep. Mace ... and the total of these associated bills.'
On Thursday, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed House Bill 1473, a measure that asserts private citizens and organizations in the state are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or by the Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges when it comes to recognizing the marriages of same-sex couples. The bill also shields people from professional discipline if they refuse to officiate or celebrate weddings or commitment ceremonies that fall outside Tennessee's statutory definition of marriage.
North Carolina lawmakers once again will try to pass statewide housing reform in a Tar Heel State push to catch up with several of its own cities. Several bills on the agenda this session prioritize housing affordability. They would preempt local control on parking, housing types, and permitting timelines. The measures would apply to all of North Carolina's districts the same types of reforms that cities such as Raleigh and Durham have already codified.
Seniors main source of income is their Social Security. The five largest worries for seniors are housing, transportation, food, health care and taxes. Living in high-cost areas where school and infrastructure bonds are an open checkbook makes it impossible for seniors to keep their homes, let alone sell their homes in an unstable housing market. If families cannot afford housing, how can seniors with fixed incomes afford to thrive? They cannot.
(Jan. 27, 2026) - The North Carolina State Board of Elections has proposed several rules establishing a challenge process for voters deemed "presumptive non-citizens," and has opened a public comment period from January 15 to March 16, 2026. While the exact process for identifying challenged voters is not yet public, the State Board of Elections has indicated that county boards of elections will bring and hear challenges to voters based upon information received from the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system.