Read the NC Supreme Court order delaying 2022 primaries
By Brian Murphy
State Board of Elections workers help candidates file for federal, state and local races at the NC State Fairgrounds Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. A court order Monday temporarily blocked U.S. House, state Senate and state House seat candidates from filing to run in the 2022 elections under the districts drawn by Republican state lawmakers.
Travis Long
tlong@newsobserver.com
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the ongoing candidate filing period for the 2022 elections in the state and moved the primary elections from March 8 to May 17 to allow additional time to hear challenges to newly drawn redistricting maps.
