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Municipalities in North Carolina, subject to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, submitted letters to the United States Department of Justice arguing that the protest petition process in the new annexation law is a vote and therefore must be approved by the Department of Justice (referred to as preclearance). In making this argument, theContinue Reading

As discussed here, in 2008, Kinston voters passed a referendum by about a 2-1 margin changing municipal elections from partisan to nonpartisan. Since Kinston is in Lenoir County, which is subject to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the change made by the referendum couldn’t be implemented without the approval of the United StatesContinue Reading