NC elections board allows for elimination of Sunday voting, avoids Trump's immigration request

Posted 2:22 p.m. Aug 27 - Updated 7:01 a.m. Yesterday

Will Doran , WRAL state government reporter

State elections officials are clearing the way for counties to eliminate Sunday voting — a decision that came on Wednesday after a contentious debate during a meeting of the newly Republican-led North Carolina State Board of Elections.

Officials punted on another political debate, however, deciding not to take up a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to turn over voter data to federal immigration officials, at least at this time. In other action, they also came up with a plan for early voting sites in Fayetteville.

The decision to allow counties to eliminate Sunday voting only immediately applied to the 2025 municipal election voting plans. But it could foreshadow more widespread eliminations in the 2026 midterms.

It was met with strong criticism from Democrats on the elections board on Wednesday. They cited a 2016 court ruling from the last time North Carolina Republicans attempted to eliminate Sunday voting — part of a broader law passed by the state legislature in 2013 but later struck down as unconstitutional for discriminating against Black voters “with almost surgical precision.”
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