Grand Theft America / Receipt power-2026-07-17-130
North Carolina's Republican election officials move against Sunday and campus voting
Republican officials and Republican-controlled election boards in North Carolina moved to reduce Sunday voting and keep early voting sites off college campuses, with an elections liaison in the state auditor's office texting a county Republican elections chair "Drop Sunday."
What happened
Public records show Dallas Woodhouse, then an elections liaison in State Auditor Dave Boliek's office, texted Pasquotank County Republican elections chair Larry Beatty, "Drop Sunday," and also supported moving the county's only 2026 general-election early voting site off the Elizabeth City State University campus. “Don't let them have a vote,” read another Woodhouse text, to Jackson County board chairman Bill Thompson ahead of a vote on a new early-voting plan. The fight follows a 2024 law transferring election-board appointment authority from the governor to Boliek.
Why it matters
Appointment authority sits with a partisan statewide officer and instructions now travel from that office down to county boards, so the mechanism is the appointment power rather than any single site decision.
Receipt details
- Phase 3
- Capture the machinery of the vote
- Restrict how and when people can vote
