The North Carolina Board of Elections axed Margot Dupre’s candidacy in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, with a majority determining after a three-hour hearing that she is not a properly registered voter or a qualified primary candidate in North Carolina.
The vote against Dupre was 3-1. Board Chairman Francis De Luca was absent.
Dupre said after the hearing that she would appeal, but would not take questions from reporters. The state Court of Appeals would consider the case next.
Dupre is one of seven Republicans on the primary ballot, though she is not one of the better-known candidates.
Primary ballots have been printed and absentee ballots have been mailed. As it stands now, if she wins the primary, the win will be vacated and the Republican Party will choose a replacement.
Board Vice-Chairman Stacy “Four” Eggers IV told Dupre that she could still run in the general election as a write-in or unaffiliated candidate.
Dupre ran in a U.S. House district in Idaho in 2024 as a write-in candidate and received seven votes.
The hearing was postponed from last week to give Dupre time to find a lawyer. She did not have one Wednesday, so she represented herself.
Fayetteville resident Jerry Reinoehl, a Republican, brought the challenge. He has for years been scouring voter rolls and found that Dupre registered using the address of a UPS store in Charlotte. She also used the UPS address when she filed as a Senate candidate. She did not provide a residential address.
Reinodehl contended that Dupre is a Florida resident who is registered to vote there. He offered Florida voter registration records as evidence.
“She’s still registered as an active voter in the state of Florida. You can’t be registered in more than one jurisdiction,” he said.
Reinoehl said it was hard to challenge a fellow Republican, but he felt obligated to speak up. “I saw something and said something,” he said.
Dupre told the board she lived in her “glamper,” or luxury camper, while campaigning through the state. She slept in hotels when cold weather set in, and is now in an AirBnB in Winston-Salem. She offered hotel receipts as evidence. Her camper is now parked at a Florida residence she co-owns.
She based her defense on a provision of the voter registration law that says a person’s residence does not need to be associated with real property, and a residence can be considered the place where the person sleeps.
Margot Dupre at the N.C. State Board of Elections meeting on Feb. 4, 2026 (Photo: Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline)“Residence shall be broadly construed to provide all persons with the opportunity to register and to vote, including stating a mailing address different from residence address,” the law says.
Dupre said she visited North Carolina frequently since 2007 and decided to move to the state in 2024, resolving to build a home on the French Broad River after she and her husband visited Biltmore in Asheville. The land she was considering purchasing was washed away in Hurricane Helene, she said.
“Charlotte is the area I return to while traveling through my state,” she said. “I own real estate and businesses in several states. I chose to make North Carolina my home.”
Dupre said she doesn’t have a North Carolina license because the wait for a DMV appointment is more than a year. She told the board she has not scheduled an appointment.
Dupre said she keeps things valuable to her in Winston-Salem, except for her horses, which are in Florida.
Eggers, who ran the hearing, said it was significant that Dupre parked the camper at the Florida address and kept her horses there.
“As one of our presenters at a conference once said, ‘It’s important to look where your animals are, and where your animals are, there is your heart.’”
Jeff Carmon, a Democratic board member, said the decision was difficult, but noted that Dupre said she wanted to live in the mountains, yet registered in Charlotte.
Democrat Siobhan Millen was the sole vote in Dupre’s favor. The law offers a fail-safe for people who don’t have a fixed residence, she said.
“It’s not fair to say they are not voting residents because they are nomadic,” Millen said.
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