Source: Anne Blythe, NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/5/18


A three-judge panel threw a new wrinkle into the oversight of elections and ethics complaints on Monday with a unanimous ruling striking down the portion of a 2017 law governing how members are appointed to the board overseeing both areas.
With absentee ballots for the May primaries set to go out on March 16, the ruling means North Carolina does not have an elections board amid an extended power struggle between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

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