
Major changes to North Carolina's elections rules, in 2024 or beyond, were unveiled Thursday in a state Senate committee — including one proposed change that critics say would give the Republican-led legislature the power to change how local city and county governments are elected, in order to weaken Democratic political power in the state's main urban areas and other liberal-leaning parts of the state. Republican lawmakers in the committee voted to advance a total rewrite of a different bill, Senate Bill 88, that now contains wide-ranging changes to state elections...