Source: Will Doran and Paul A. Specht, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/27/18


Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has vetoed the two bills the legislature passed earlier this week that would affect November’s midterm elections. “Legislative Republicans want to roll back checks and balances in order to pick their own judges and put special interests in charge of education, voting, clean water and more. Republican legislators are shamefully attempting to mislead voters in order to undermine our state’s constitution and weaken the separation of powers between the branches of government,” Cooper said in a press release announcing the vetoes.

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