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The ultra-progressive party held a celebratory press conference Monday. But being on the ballot hardly means its candidates will actually contend in any races.

A federal lawsuit claims North Carolina law discriminates against unaffiliated voters by keeping them off the state elections board.

After initially denying the Green Party's official recognition, the state elections board has now reversed its decision.

After the state elections board denied the North Carolina Green Party official recognition, the far-left group sued in federal district court for access to this year's mid-term ballot.

The board cited an ongoing investigation into evidence of fraud and other irregularities in the petition process used to seek ballot access for the party.

State law requires bipartisan teams in all 100 counties conduct hand counts among two randomly selected ballot groups. The board says hand and machine counts were identical in 90% of the groups.

The voters say Cawthorn fails to comply with the portion of a post-Civil War amendment to the Constitution pertaining to insurrections because of his involvement in the January 2021 rally that preceded the U.S. Capitol riot. Cawthorn says he's never engaged in an insurrection. The latest court filings say the challenge process is constitutional and doesn't harm Cawthorn.

North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn has sued to block efforts by voters seeking to prevent him from running for Congress this year because of his involvement in the January 2021 rally that preceded the U.S. Capitol riot.

New audits are a years-in-the-making project to boost voter confidence, with an eye to statewide rollout. Mecklenburg County is one of 15 counties testing the new system this year.

Two small political parties in North Carolina are no longer officially recognized because they failed to meet candidate support thresholds in November,…