Illegal voting Coverage

Fact check: Trump claims millions of immigrants are signing up to vote illegally

Former President Donald Trump's final push before the Iowa caucuses came with warnings about an outrageous Democratic scheme to register immigrants in the country illegally to vote.

Amy Sherman, PolitiFact reporter

Bill to scrub voting rolls, require US manufacture of voting machines, advances in House

The governor has vetoed one of these ideas before, potentially dooming the whole measure.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Texas Man Who Waited Hours to Vote Is Arrested on Charges of Illegal Voting

A 62-year-old Texas man who waited hours to cast a ballot in last year's presidential primary was arrested this past week on charges that he had voted illegally.

Isabella Grullón Paz, New York Times

Poll: Majority of Americans more concerned about voter access than ineligible voters

A majority of all Americans prioritize ensuring that those who want to vote can do so, rather than making sure no ineligible people can vote, a new NBC News poll finds.

NBC News poll: Americans more concerned about voter access than ineligible voters

A new poll finds the majority of Americans prioritize ensuring that those who want to vote can do so. However, the poll did find three in four Republicans prioritize making sure no ineligible people vote.

NC elections board, feds point fingers at each other over voter records probe

Federal prosecutors have announced an end to a sweeping, four-year-long investigation into voter fraud in North Carolina, peeling back a veil of secrecy from a probe that pitted state and federal officials against each other over a massive demand for data on every one of the state's registered voters.

Secret until now, records reveal clash over the Trump DOJ's demand for NC voter data

Feds said repeatedly they suspected "pervasive," "systemic" fraud, but in the end charged only 70 people out of millions of voters and found no conspiracy.

Tyler Dukes, The News & Observer, and Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Editorial: 'Law & order' president protects lawbreaking and rule dodging

Friday, Sept. 4, 2020 -- For an incumbent desperate to portray himself as a law-and-order guy, President Donald Trump is an unrelenting advocate for lawbreaking and rule dodging. Even as evidence piles up of foreign efforts to disrupt the 2020 elections, these outside agitators and lawbreakers are going to have tough competition from the president of the United States. That is a tragic state of affairs.

Oklahoma woman shocked to find out dead husband already voted

An Oklahoma woman says she was shocked when a poll worker said her recently deceased husband had voted before her arrival.

Foreign nationals charged with illegal voting mostly got small fines

U.S. Attorneys Office in Raleigh announces plea deal in one of the last outstanding cases from 2018 crackdown.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

House backs bill to scrub voter rolls based on jury duty excusals

Bill is mean to target people excused from jury duty because they're not citizens.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Convicted felons charged with illegally voting in Hoke

Four convicted felons have been charged with illegally voting in the 2016 elections in Hoke County.

Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter

Some convicted felons say they're unaware they aren't allowed to vote

Four convicted felons have been charged with illegally voting in the 2016 elections in Hoke County.

Non-citizen from Wake gets month in prison for illegally voting

A former Wake County elections precinct worker was sentenced Friday to two months in prison for helping a Mexican citizen register to vote in the 2016 election.

Former Wake elections worker gets prison time for helping non-citizen vote

A former Wake County elections precinct worker was sentenced Friday to two months in prison for helping a Mexican citizen register to vote in the 2016 election.

NC officials haven't handed over massive trove of voter data to feds

A demand from the U.S. Department of Justice for data on North Carolina voters has so far gone unanswered by state officials, despite a deadline to produce the records that passed this week.

Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter

Feds file voting fraud charges against 19 foreign nationals

The U.S. Attorney's Office announced the charges Friday afternoon. One of those charged voted in Wake County.

Voting felonies dropped for five in Alamance in plea deals

Five North Carolina residents accused of illegally voting during the 2016 election have had felony charges dropped under plea deals.

Zebulon man sentenced 4 months in prison for illegal voting

A Zebulon man was sentenced with two counts of voting by alien by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday. Roberto Hernandez-Cuarenta, 57, was sentenced to four months in prison for both counts.

Maggie Brown, WRAL.com editor