A bipartisan panel of judges in North Carolina has ruled that the Republican-controlled state legislature improperly tried to seize control of state and local election boards from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper – a consequential decision in a state that could emerge as a key battleground in November’s presidential election.
The decision blocks a portion of a controversial voting law that changed the makeup of these boards and leaves in place, for the time being, the current configuration, which favors the party of the sitting governor. The state Board of Elections, for instance, currently has three Democrats and two Republicans. The ruling also affects 100 county boards that oversee elections in the Tar Heel State.
Phil Berger, the top Republican in the North Carolina Senate, said in an email that Cooper was trying to retain “complete, single-party control of elections administration” in the state. “One should question why he so vehemently opposes the creation of a bipartisan board of elections. What’s he afraid of?” she wrote. The three judges in this case previously had temporarily blocked this part of the law from taking effect.
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