College Democrats of North Carolina and students from three universities are suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections over early voting sites for the 2026 primary.
In the federal lawsuit, the plaintiffs — students from N.C. A&T State University, UNC-Greensboro, and Western Carolina University — allege the board is unconstitutionally restricting their right to vote based on age.
Local elections board members in Guilford and Jackson counties are also named as defendants.
N.C. A&T is the nation’s largest HBCU. The lawsuit also says the Western Carolina polling site served more Black voters in 2024 than any other polling place in Jackson County.
“State and county officials brushed aside urgent warnings that their decisions would disproportionately burden young and Black voters and denigrated students who advocated for their rights,” the lawsuit says. “Our policy is not to comment on pending litigation,” state board spokesman Pat Gannon said in an email.
At a January 2025 meeting setting early voting plans, the state board’s Republican majority voted to eliminate voting sites at Western Carolina University and Elon University, and refused to consider plans that would add polling places at N.C. A&T and UNC-G. A contingent of A&T students protested at the meeting, though they were not allowed to comment..
Western Carolina students without transportation will have to walk nearly two miles to get to the nearest polling place. Some of that distance is along a four-lane highway.
But Jackson County Elections Board Chairman Bill Thompson, arguing against the Western Carolina polling place site, told the board parking on campus is a hassle and it didn’t make sense to have two early voting sites so close together.
A statement from Guilford County Elections Board members to the state board supporting the plan without the campus sites said it was largely consistent with plans for midterm primaries from 2010 through 2022. The early voting plan for the primary added two more locations, though they are not on college campuses.
State Board Chairman Francis De Luca told NC Newsline that he doesn’t like campus voting locations because it’s hard to find parking.
Early voting starts Feb. 12 and ends Feb. 28.
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