The State Board of Elections will hold a remote meeting beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, September 20, 2022.

Beginning Friday, September 9, North Carolina’s county boards of elections will begin mailing absentee ballots to voters who request them for the 2022 general election.

Statement from State Board Chair Damon Circosta on maintaining an orderly and safe voting environment for the 2022 general election.

    
The State Board of Elections will hold an in-person meeting beginning at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. The meeting will be held in the Board Room at the State Board of Elections office, Third Floor, Dobbs Building, 430 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, N.C. 

The State Board of Elections will hold a remote meeting beginning at 3 p.m. Friday, September 2, 2022.

The State Board of Elections voted unanimously on Tuesday to finalize results of the July 26 elections, held in about 15 N.C. counties.

The State Board also voted unanimously to approve proposed temporary rule amendments governing the conduct of precinct officials and election observers at polling places. These proposed rules will be submitted to the Rules Review Commission for consideration.

The State Board of Elections invites public comment on proposed campaign finance rules addressing processes for North Carolina political committees or referendum committees that fail to file a campaign finance disclosure report by the statutory deadline. The public comment period is open and runs through Friday, October 14.

The State Board of Elections wishes to set the record straight after a guest on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News this week spread false information about North Carolina elections. The State Board and some county boards of elections have received inquiries about this since the segment aired on Wednesday.

North Carolina elections officials recently received a “Defender of Democracy” award for their work serving voters before, during, and after the 2020 elections.

The Center for Election Innovations & Research (CEIR), a nonprofit organization working to build voter trust and confidence, recently presented the awards to North Carolina and elections officials from eight other states.

The State Board of Elections has extended the public comment period for two proposed rules related to tasks and duties of precinct officials at polling places and the appointment process and conduct of election observers.

Written comments will be accepted through 5 p.m. Friday, August 12, 2022. A second virtual public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, August 11. How to join:

The State Board of Elections on Monday voted 4-0 to recognize the North Carolina Green Party as an official political party in the state.

The State Board of Elections will hold a remote meeting beginning at 11 a.m. Tuesday, August 16, 2022.

Under state law, election officials must release the number of provisional ballots cast in each county by noon two days after each election. The State Board surveyed the county boards of elections with July 26 elections to provide the count of provisional ballots cast during this election.

See the following PDF for these numbers:

The State Board of Elections on Wednesday, July 27, will randomly select precincts, early voting sites, and absentee-by-mail ballots to be counted by hand in each of the counties conducting elections on July 26.

Note: This press release was updated on August 19, 2022, to add the final sentence.

Voters in more than a dozen North Carolina counties will go to the polls on Tuesday, July 26, for municipal general elections, runoffs, and, in Graham and Wake counties, second primaries for sheriff.

The following contests will be decided on July 26:

The State Board of Elections invites the public to comment on two proposed temporary administrative rules related to tasks and duties of precinct officials at polling places and the appointment process and conduct of election observers.

State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell on Thursday updated the public on the investigation into suspected fraudulent signatures gathered for the Green Party’s bid for new party recognition in North Carolina.

The State Board of Elections will hold a remote meeting beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 14, 2022. Meeting materials will be posted on a rolling basis on the State Board’s meeting website. Members of the public and the media may listen to proceedings as follows: