Michael Bitzer

More than 190,000 North Carolina voters have already requested an absentee ballot, elections officials say.

In-person early voting begins on October 15th in North Carolina but casting ballots by mail is well underway. This year, with concerns about contracting…

With continued concerns over the spread of COVID-19, and a national election less than three months away, record numbers of North Carolinians are planning…

On Monday, the State Board of Elections will begin a hearing on what to do with North Carolina's embattled 9th Congressional District. That race was…

Catawba College political scientist Michael Bitzer is known for taking deep dives into North Carolina voter data. And in a recent post to his blog, Old…

An outside expert appointed by a federal court has released his proposed changes to North Carolina's statehouse districts. The changes were ordered…

On Tuesday, plans to redraw North Carolina's judicial districts took a step forward during a special House committee meeting held in Raleigh. It was the…

This week, Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a compromise on repealing House Bill 2, the law that limits legal protections for LGBT people. The deal would have…

“The primary purpose of the Electoral College was to put kind of a safety valve if we ever had too much democracy.”