The North Carolina State Board of Elections' top administrator asked a powerful legislator on Thursday to retract a comment that he made suggesting this month's results were being manipulated, saying it could lead to threats against local election workers.

The state’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a sweeping bill that would erode the power of the Democratic governor and attorney general and hand the G.O.P. more control over elections.

As the contest for a seat on the NC Supreme Court remains close, some cast doubt on how election results are certified. Here’s how it works.

North Carolina voters are choosing a successor to term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina voters choosing a successor to term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper were deciding Tuesday between an attorney general who would carry on Cooper's policies and a lieutenant governor whose blunt speaking style and working-class history favored him among hardline conservatives.

North Carolina Republican legislators have given final approval to a series of political power moves that would weaken the incoming governor and other Democratic elected officials.

The last-minute inclusions strip the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of significant authority before the GOP loses its supermajority.

North Carolina Republicans are scrambling to shore up the authority they have before next year when they will not have their supermajority status to thwart moves by Democratic leaders in the state. The Tar Heel State has been a reliably Republican bastion for state lawmakers,

North Carolina Republicans have advanced legislation that would weaken the powers of the incoming governor, attorney general and schools superintendent

Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election.

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, speaks while state Republican Party Chairman Jason Simmons listens at a news conference reviewing Tuesday's general election results at state GOP headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

The final counts by counties are about over and a Democratic incumbent on North Carolina’s Supreme Court has an ever-slight lead over a Republican challenger.

U.S. Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina will be a vice chair for the Senate GOP’s campaign arm ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as the party looks to flip more seats, the National Republican Senatorial Committee announced Thursday. North Carolina’s senior senator, Republican Thom Tillis, is up for reelection in 2026.