Photo ID

Looming Government Shutdown Could Affect TSA Security Lines At Airports Across The Country

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What you need to know as the May 7 Real ID deadline approaches

5:00am April 10, 2025

Driver's licenses and IDs that are not Real ID-compliant will no longer get you through U.S. airport security once the law takes effect in a few weeks, but full enforcement may not start right away.

Image shows election workers with ballots to be mailed

Politics & Government

After delay, absentee-by-mail ballots go out to NC military, overseas citizens

2:17pm September 20, 2024

by Paul Garber

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

Plaintiffs and their supporters spoke after the voter ID trial.

Politics & Government

The federal court challenge to NC's voter ID law continues in Winston-Salem

6:00am May 08, 2024

by David Ford

The second day of the NAACP's lawsuit over North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID law saw four witnesses take the stand at Winston-Salem's Middle District federal courthouse.

sign that reads "Notice Photo ID Required"

Politics & Government

Final application period begins for schools and government entities to have photo IDs approved for voting

4:06pm April 01, 2024

by Bethany Chafin

The state Board of Elections says this is the last opportunity to apply before the November 5th election later this year.

North Carolina voter ID lawsuit still heading for trial after judge declines to end challenge

8:37am March 14, 2024

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

A federal trial over North Carolina's photo voter identification law remains set for May after a judge refused Wednesday to end efforts by civil rights groups that sued over the requirement on allegations that its provisions are marred by racial bias.

Politics & Government

Forsyth County's provisional ballot count among the state's highest

4:30pm March 08, 2024

by David Ford

On Super Tuesday a total of 513 provisional ballots were cast at precincts in Forsyth County, more than three times the number in Guilford, and outpacing all other counties minus Wake with just over 1,300.

Reggie Weaver speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, about a recent partisan gerrymandering ruling

Politics & Government

N. Carolina justices hand GOP big win with election rulings

1:43pm April 28, 2023

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

In massive victories for Republicans, the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased.

Politics & Government

NC Supreme Court weighs if voter ID tainted by racial bias

4:01pm October 03, 2022

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina’s long-litigated photo voter identification law was appraised at the state Supreme Court on Monday.

Politics & Government

NC Supreme Court to hear voter ID arguments next month

12:41pm September 12, 2022

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

The justices who are registered as Democrats agreed with attorneys for minority voters who had asked the state's highest court in July to move the case along more quickly.

Politics & Government

Courts Make Photo ID Less Likely In North Carolina 2020 Voting

2:47pm February 18, 2020

by Associated Press, Gary D. Robertson

North Carolina's newest voter photo identification law seems flawed by "discriminatory intent" and should have been blocked months ago, a state appeals court ruled on