The North Carolina State Board of Elections' top administrator asked a powerful legislator on Thursday to retract a comment that he made suggesting this month's results were being manipulated, saying it could lead to threats against local election workers.

As the contest for a seat on the NC Supreme Court remains close, some cast doubt on how election results are certified. Here’s how it works.

North Carolina voters are choosing a successor to term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina voters choosing a successor to term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper were deciding Tuesday between an attorney general who would carry on Cooper's policies and a lieutenant governor whose blunt speaking style and working-class history favored him among hardline conservatives.

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, speaks while state Republican Party Chairman Jason Simmons listens at a news conference reviewing Tuesday's general election results at state GOP headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

North Carolina Republicans have advanced legislation that would weaken the powers of the incoming governor, attorney general and schools superintendent

Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election.

An already close race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat reached a razor-thin margin as most counties completed final tallies from the Nov. 5 election