WRAL: “Republicans took control of elections administration in mid-2025 and, in some counties, they have quickly moved to enact two longtime party goals: Eliminating Sunday hours and campus polling places during early voting.
Those decisions led to political disputes in a handful of counties statewide, which the GOP-majority State Board of Elections settled in a meeting Tuesday.
…”This is calculated,” Olu Rouse, an NCA&T student from Cary, said in an interview after the meeting. “This is a strategy, and it’s actively trying to suppress our votes.”
Ultimately, their protests failed as the board’s Republican majority voted each time Tuesday in favor of the plans targeting Sunday and campus voting options. The votes were all 3-2 party-line votes with the Republicans in favor and the Democrats opposed.”