Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 3/14/18

Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday that he'll make appointments to a long-delayed new State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement this week while simultaneously continuing to fight the Republican-mandated changes to the board in court. 
The appointments would allow the organization, which has staff but no appointed board, to clear a backlog of work ahead of this year's elections. Among other things, the board appoints county boards of elections.

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