North Carolina Adds More Partisan GOP Staffers to Election Board

The North Carolina election board on Thursday announced a raft of new hires with backgrounds in the state’s Republican politics, including a former aide to the GOP lawmaker who led the state’s recent gerrymander.

Meanwhile, top staffers who have left the board are expressing intense concern about its growing politicization since the GOP’s takeover earlier this year.

In May, the Republicans who control the board replaced its executive director, Karen Brinson Bell, a longtime, apolitical executive director, with Sam Hayes, a GOP operative.

“It is unfortunate that there was a change in direction,” Brinson Bell told Democracy Docket. “The state board of elections has been an independent agency since its inception. And now we’re watching it become very political.”


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