North Carolina
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in North Carolina (NC) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside North Carolina counts here.
This is not the same set as North Carolina's jurisdiction page, which records the 23 entries where North Carolina's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
7 entries · 7 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Cabarrus County county 1 entry
North Carolina auditor's elections liaison pressured Cabarrus County's board to delay its early-voting vote for a GOP-leaning site
On April 27, 2026, the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Board of Elections voted 4-1 to table its fall early-voting plan for 30 days, after Dallas Woodhouse -- the elections liaison in Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek's office -- pressed board chair Jay White to delay the vote and, in an April 23 text, urged the state Republican Party's general counsel "in the strongest possible terms" to do the same, so the office could pursue an additional early-voting site in Midland, a more Republican-leaning part of the county. The Cabarrus board ultimately kept its original four sites; none is in Midland.
Caldwell County county 1 entry
ICE, Forest Service, and Caldwell County deputies arrested 13 people at a North Carolina national-forest recreation site
On July 26, 2026, ICE agents, U.S. Forest Service law enforcement, and Caldwell County, North Carolina sheriff's deputies arrested 13 people during an immigration operation at Wilson Creek, a popular swimming and recreation area in Pisgah National Forest -- the first time ICE has partnered with the Forest Service in North Carolina in recent memory. Those detained included a father taken into custody in front of his partner and their 4- and 10-year-old children. ICE said some of those arrested had criminal records but has not specified who or how many. Local Latino advocates, who had spent months volunteering to help the Hurricane Helene-damaged recreation area reopen, say the operation has left families in the area afraid to return.
Charlotte city 1 entry
ICE detained green-card holder Venkata Vasamsetty months after her removal case was dismissed
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Venkata Vasamsetty, a Wake County, North Carolina schoolteacher and lawful permanent resident since 2013, at a scheduled check-in at ICE's Charlotte field office on Aug. 11, 2026, months after an immigration judge dismissed the government's removal case against her on May 19, 2026. ICE transferred Vasamsetty to the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, and her attorney said the agency's own records had not been updated to reflect the dismissal before her legal team filed an emergency habeas corpus petition on Aug. 12, 2026.
Columbus County county 1 entry
North Carolina auditor's elections liaison pressured Columbus County's board to cut early-voting sites
On May 27, 2026, Dallas Woodhouse -- the elections liaison in North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek's office -- texted Columbus County Board of Elections Chair Jillian McPherson-Edge that five early-voting sites was "overkill" and named three sites (Whiteville, Chadbourn, and Tabor City) to keep instead. On June 8, McPherson-Edge revised her own proposal from one site to three, matching Woodhouse's suggested list almost exactly. The county board later split along party lines and failed to reach the unanimous vote North Carolina law requires, sending the final site count to the State Board of Elections to decide.
Guilford County county 1 entry
Guilford County Board of Elections voted 4-1 to exclude NC A&T and UNC Greensboro campus early voting sites for 2026 midterms
On July 21, 2026, the Guilford County Board of Elections voted 4-1 to adopt a 2026 early voting plan that does not include polling sites at North Carolina A&T State University or UNC Greensboro, despite both campuses being used as early voting sites in the 2024 general election. The plan retains 13 of the 15 sites used in the 2022 midterms and adds two new sites—one in rural Stokesdale and one at Union Square in downtown Greensboro—for a total of 17, none on university campuses. Because the vote was not unanimous, the NC State Board of Elections will make the final decision.
Jackson County county 1 entry
North Carolina auditor's elections liaison pressured a Jackson County board chair to block a campus early-voting site
On June 2, 2026, the morning the Jackson County, North Carolina, Board of Elections was to vote on an early-voting site at Western Carolina University, Dallas Woodhouse -- the county-board liaison in Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek's office -- texted board chair Bill Thompson at 9:48 a.m., "Don't let them have a vote." The board met later that morning and voted to keep the campus site, with a Republican member joining Democrats. Public records disclosed weeks later showed the text was part of a broader effort by Boliek's office to shape county early-voting plans to favor Republican turnout, using appointment authority a 2024 law had transferred from the Democratic governor to Boliek.
New Hanover County county 1 entry
North Carolina auditor's elections liaison guided GOP county boards on removing their nonpartisan elections directors
On September 23, 2025, Dallas Woodhouse -- the elections liaison in Republican North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek's office -- emailed Republican-majority election board members in New Hanover and Anson counties a step-by-step guide, including a template removal petition, for firing their nonpartisan elections directors, bypassing the normal channel through the state elections director's office. New Hanover County director Rae Hunter-Havens abruptly retired on October 7, 2025, two weeks later, citing health reasons; records obtained by WECT nearly a year later showed board members privately describing her departure as a firing. Woodhouse acknowledged in an interview that his advice "could be deemed as putting a thumb on the scale."