The board then voted Wednesday to elect Francis De Luca, one of the new Republican members, as its chair in a 3-2 vote. The Democratic members said they would have preferred that Stacy “Four” Eggers, a longtime Republican board member, be the chair instead.

The North Carolina elections board ousted its widely respected executive director Wednesday in a partisan move that will put Republicans in control of election operations in the political swing state,

The Republican challenger for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat conceded last November's election on Wednesday to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs, two days after a federal judge ruled that potentially thousands of disputed ballots challenged by Jefferson Griffin must remain in the final tally.