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We start off with major news out of the Eastern District of North Carolina as a federal grand jury. Has indicted ten non-citizens on charges of lying about their citizenship and voting illegally in North Carolina elections. Eight of the ten defendants appeared in handcuffs and shackles before U.S. magistrate judge James E. Gates Thursday morning at the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse in downtown Raleigh.
Another was detained and showed up after the hearing. The tenth, the last of the tenth, appeared at a courthouse in Newbern, which is also, of course, in the Eastern District. They include three natives of Germany, two of Jamaica, and one each of Canada, Haiti, Panama, and the former Yugoslavia, as well as an illegal alien from El Salvador. U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle said at a press conference in Raleigh on Thursday afternoon that the illegal alien was in possession of a firearm when he was arrested Tuesday and would face additional charges for carrying that firearm.
All ten were charged with falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to vote, and all but one Jamaican native were charged with one count of voting by an alien. Each count of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to vote is punishable by up to five years in prison, a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar fine. Voting by an alien is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to one hundred thousand dollars.
The indictments allege that the defendants voted in previous elections, some as early as the two thousand general election, and nine as recently as the twenty twenty four. General election back just a few years ago, the judge said that the defendants would be released subject to conditions set by the court. Ellis Boyle, the attorney from the Eastern District of North Carolina, was joined at the press conference by FBI special agent in charge for North Carolina, Reed Davis; Homeland Security Investigations, Carolina special agent in charge, Marc Zito, and North Carolina State Board of Elections. Elections Director Sam Hayes. There were other officials standing at and around the press conference.
That did not speak. Boyle told reporters, "This is the thing that they say it never happens. It's happening again and again and again until we finally have said enough. Every single illegal vote cancels the ballot of an American citizen who follows the rules. This is not a minor hiccup.
It is an assault on the constitutional principle, and only Americans decide American elections. And as part of that." Central. It is part of the central fabric of our constitutional republic. This brings the total number of illegal voters indicted and convicted in the Eastern District of North Carolina in just this calendar year, 2026, to 12. We've seen two other cases unfolding in southeastern North Carolina.
Dennis Bouchard, a Canadian national, faced two months a two month prison sentence back in May, and a year of Supervised release after pleading guilty to federal charges of voting illegally in southeastern North Carolina. Additionally, the office previously charged an individual by James Osborne of Wilmington, who falsely claimed he was eligible to vote on a voter registration material or ballot while he was a convicted felon still serving a term of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Boyle pointed to several close elections, including the 2020 race for chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, which was decided by just 400 votes statewide, and this year's Republican primary for Senate District 26, in which Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger lost by just 23 votes. He added that several municipal races have been decided by just a single vote. With Boyle saying during the press conference, "Every single vote counts every single time." He also said he suspects that the issue is much more prevalent as they continue to investigate, and he stressed that the defendants were all presumed innocent, of course, until proven guilty in a court of law.
We also heard from the executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Sam Hayes, who said that the alleged illegal voters were identified after the state board of elections staff ran the state's voter rolls through the federal systematic alien verification for entitlements database, also known as the SAVE database, back in April. And after after seeing individuals come back on that list, relayed that in. To the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hayes said at the press conference, "I made election integrity a priority in my administration since I took office, and those efforts are bearing fruit. For those who say we are supporting a lie, this is the reality." At an October the eighth meeting of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, two of the two Democrat board members raised concerns about the review of voter registrations identified by federal data as potentially belonging to non citizens. With one of them questioning the accuracy of the database, while the other warned that the unsupported allegations could fuel perceptions of widespread voter fraud.
Democrat board member Jeff. Harmon said at the meeting that there has been no evidence to date of what he called widespread voter fraud or non-citizen voting in North Carolina. He said, in part, that does not mean our elections are perfect or that legitimate concerns should not be investigated. They absolutely should, but there is a significant difference between legitimate oversight and repeatedly making unsupported allegations that undermine public confidence in our. Elections board member, another Democrat board member, and Shabon Millen said that she had raised she had questions rather about the letter's wording and the information that was found in the saved database that would be used.
She she said that while she didn't have a problem with the letter depending on how it was worded, she would have had a problem if people on the list were used in the basis of a county limited a county initiated challenge. Like they do for felons or for people who are deceased, stating that while the Department of Corrections and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services lists are accurate, the Save database is not. Hayes told her, "Know that this was an opportunity for due process for registrants to be heard if they think that they were added to the save database by mistake, and not the basis for anybody to be removed from the voter rolls here across North Carolina." Hayes said Thursday that they will continue to work on election security by modernizing the Board of Elections' election management system, and will continue to work with state and federal partners. With through the state board's new division of election security enforcement, headed by Ron Herring, who was named into that position back in February, Hayes said that we will continue to avail ourselves of the Save database. This is one of the.
Few tools that we have to check for non-citizens on voter rolls, and we will continue to do that. This follows up on a major story over the last week. And on Tuesday, we heard that the North Carolina State Board of Elections would begin sending letters to 1,392 registered voters that were identified as potential non-citizens. Hayes said, "Our message to these folks receiving these letters is to take it serious." Read the letter. If you have questions about your citizenship, don't wait.
Contact the state board of elections. Don't wind up like these folks here under indictment. Make no mistake: being a legal resident of this country does not being a legal resident of this country does not entitle you to vote. You have to be 18 years old and a citizen of the United States. If there is any questions about that, I encourage voters to contact the state board of elections and let us help.
This is all happening, of course, during a very busy early voting period, kicking off here across North Carolina ahead of the November the third midterm election. Early voting for North Carolina's 2026 midterm elections opened Thursday across all 100 counties. We learned that there are more than three. Three hundred and seventy early voting locations, with all of the sites combined. That being all three hundred and seventy sites for the next two and a half weeks.
That works out to more than fifty-six thousand hours of early voting, with all of those sites combined over the next couple of weeks across North Carolina. We are going to keep a very close eye on those early voting totals in the days and weeks to come as we approach the November the third midterm election. We'll be chatting with folks like a Dr. Andy Jackson from the John Locke Foundation and others from CarolinaJournal.com to kind of set the scene, set the stage as to what those tallies look like, comparing and contrasting to years ago. We'll continue to do that over on our website CarolinaJournal.com and as always, right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour.
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On. Good morning again. It's five twenty-two. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, one hundred seven point nine FM, WBT. Tracking some other statewide ongoings this morning.
A Republican member of the North Carolina Court of Appeals is criticizing a major statewide newspaper for ignoring four women who currently serve on the state's second highest court. An email from Judge April Wood, included in a news release, highlights more than 60 years of judicial experience for April Wood and fellow judges Donna Shroud, Valerie Zachary, and Julie Flood. Bring it to the North Carolina Court of Appeals. All four women are Republicans.
So, how do we get here?
Well, the release is in response to an editorial that appeared Thursday in the Raleigh News and Observer and the Charlotte Observer. The editorial in Candidates for North Carolina's four statewide appellate court races. In each case, no surprise, the News and Observer and Charlotte Observer endorsed the Democratic candidates. Making the argument that if they did not win, there would be no women on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. In an open appeals court contest between current Superior Court Judge Craig Collins, a Republican, and District Court Judge Christine Walzec, a Democrat, the newspaper referenced that the winner would replace Judge Allegra Collins, a Democrat.
In the original version of the editorial, the newspaper suggested that a loss for a Judge Christine Walzak would leave the Court of Appeals without a single woman among its 15 members. Completely off base, there. From the News and Observer, Woods wrote in her news release that assertion is incorrect. The four Republican women serving alongside Judge Collins deserve to have their service and contributions accurately recognized. Wood continued by saying their collective experience spans decades.
Decades of service on the trial and appellate benches. Judge Shroud served as a district court judge before joining the court of appeals, where she also served as chief judge. Judge Woods served 18 years as a district court judge before joining the appellate bench. These women bring substantial experience, distinct perspectives, and a shared responsibility to uphold the Constitution and apply the law fairly. Wood continued in her letter by saying the newspapers are entitled to endorse the candidates of their choosing.
Their readers are entitled to an accurate account of the court's membership. An endorsement should not erase the service of four women simply because they belong to a different political party. Recognizing women's contributions to the judiciary requires recognizing Republican women's too. Wood added their experience, leadership, and public service. Are no less meaningful because of their party affiliation.
She continued in the letter by saying the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News and Observer should promptly correct the factual error and give that correction sufficient prominence to read to to the reach the readers who received the inaccurate information. North Carolinians deserve an informed discussion about their courts, one that acknowledges all women who serve. The newspaper, no surprise. Altered the online editorial about the contest between Craig and Collins. Writing in the updated editorial, the winner fills the seat vacated by Democrat Allegra Collins, potentially leaving the court without a woman Democrat among its 15 justices.
We think that's meaningful, and Walzak has been an active advocate for women in the judiciary and legal community. Just below the endorsement, a Correction notes: "Quote an earlier version incorrectly stated that Christine Walzak would be the only woman on the court of appeals. If she won, she would be the only Democratic woman." Very interesting, and a lot of folks scratching their head, wondering how an error like that could possibly be made by a by two prominent news outlets here across the state of North Carolina, the News and Observer, and Charlotte Observer in in Charlotte, and an O. In Raleigh, you can read more on this and get a full copy of the letter from Judge April Wood. Those details over on our website this morning, carolinajournal.com.
Look for the headline N and O. ignores GOP women in court endorsement article. In some other statewide news this morning, unfortunately, we don't have early voting totals to bring you from Thursday morning or Thursday as of yet. Doing a check of the North Carolina State Board of Elections website just before we kicked off the show at five o'clock this morning, we still don't have statewide totals, which we had hoped to have. Hopefully, we'll get those on a more regular basis before the five a.m.
Hour moving forward.
However, what we do know is that as early voting opened yesterday morning, State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes reported that more than twenty-seven thousand voters had already cast their ballots statewide by ten a.m. That was just two hours after early voting began across the state. A total of three hundred and seventy early voting sites opened statewide yesterday, which by the end of the period will add up to. A total of fifty six thousand four hundred and fifty three hours of early voting across all one hundred counties. Early voting does continue today and through the remainder of the month.
Everything wraps up at three on at three p.m. I should say on Saturday, October the thirty first. There is no voting that Sunday or Monday ahead of Election Day, which is coming your way on Tuesday, November the third. Sam Hayes said at the at a press release. Our press conference, I should say, in Raleigh yesterday.
Here we are, finally, the opening day of early voting in North Carolina, and we're pleased to report that our county boards of elections are prepared to welcome voters across all 100 counties. Hayes also noted that early voting has become the dominant method for most North Carolinians, highlighting that in the 2024 general election, 74 of voters cast ballots during the early vote. Period compared with just fifty three percent during the twenty twenty two midterm election. Officials expect significant participation again this year during the early voting period. Registered North Carolina voters may cast a ballot at any early voting site in their county.
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It's 5:37. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk 107.9 FM WBT. I'm Nick Craig. A good Friday morning to you. There has been a lot of discussion in North Carolina since the North Carolina General Assembly over recent legislative sessions has continued expanding the Opportunity Scholarship.
Many call it the school voucher program across the state of North Carolina. There's kind of two different arguments to that.
Some will argue that expanding that program affects and defunds the public school system, while others argue that a rising tide raises all ships and giving academic opportunities. To families across the state of North Carolina is not only a good thing, but it also raises the quality of many of our public schools across the state. To walk us through some detail on that and get his thoughts on everything as it relates to education policy here in North Carolina, it's my pleasure once again to welcome Bryce Fielder, the director of the Carolinas Academic Leadership Network, also known as Callen, to our airwaves this morning on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Bryce, give me your thoughts on where you fall on that line between essentially destroying. Public schools and helping and making educational opportunities better for everybody in North Carolina.
Yeah, well, thank you, Nick. It's great to be here with you as always. And look, I certainly fall into that second camp that a rising tide raises all ships. And in the case of having a robust private school and school choice option in North Carolina, I think that should, in many ways, sort of light the fire under all of our different, you know, schooling options, including public schools in North Carolina, and make everything a little bit more competitive. Look, the truth is that we live in a time where school choice is a Not just in North Carolina, but across the country, and parents are thinking in their own interest and in the interest of their children, and thinking where can we put my child?
That's in the best education environment for them. And for some parents, that's going to be the traditional neighborhood public schools, and for others, it might be an option through the Opportunity Scholarship.
So ultimately, I look at this through the lens of what gives parents the most options to ensure they can put their child into school that they think is best fitting. Bryce, there's been some studies. I don't necessarily know if there's been any in North Carolina. Our school choice opportunity scholarship program is relatively new in comparison to some other states, where they've got a lot longer of a track record and are able to kind of build some of these data data models out. But it has consistently shown that when these other choice schools come into the market, we typically do see that those traditional K through 12 public schools start to raise start to raise their academic levels.
We see better. Performance it very much fits the model of when when you bring competition into the market, everybody gets better. That's exactly right. When you introduce new options, when you disrupt the status quo, which for a long time has been that your only option has been your neighborhood public school, that's going to have an effect of encouraging everyone to try to be better and having you know better education outcomes. There's a great anecdote from my home state of Florida.
So I grew up in Orlando. I went to one of the I graduated from one of the biggest public school districts in the country, Orange County Public Schools. And a few years ago, Florida has been very active on the school. Choice efforts. Orange County Public Schools actually started to hire recruiters to go out on the street to sell the public school system and appeal to parents as a compelling option.
And that's just something that would have been unheard of ten years ago.
So there's all sorts of positive benefits to number one, injecting more options into the public into the education arena, and number two, what comes from from having competition. Yeah, and that that competition angle is a big one. And you know, the conversation we're having. Here this morning, not to disparage or disgrace our public school system. That's not the intention at all.
But Bryce, I think that you can find many examples here across North Carolina of kind of an antiquated system as it relates to education. And when there is no competition in the market, like we were just talking about, and your only option was whatever zip code you live in, your kids go to this school. It should be no surprise that things kind of stagnate because it's status quo, and there's really no reason to change. Yeah, that's exactly right. And look, I'll tell you, we speak to a lot of school leaders through our work at the Carolinas Academic Leadership Network, and one of the common traits that I see in our top-performing school districts is that the leaders in those districts have a way of embracing choice.
Right? I won't go out. I won't say necessarily that all of the public schools are celebrating the private school options or the expansion of homeschool options, but they understand that those options aren't going away, and that their only option at this point. Is to embrace competition, embrace that competition mindset, and ultimately work a little bit harder to make our public schools a compelling option.
So it's the ones that accept that and embrace that consistently are the districts that we see as some of the top performing in the state. Do we have some solid examples of that here in North Carolina? The opportunity scholarship program itself is not necessarily brand new, Bryce, but we have seen just over the last couple of legislative sessions a much larger. Expansion. We have now this multi-tiered system, depending on your income level, determines how much money you can get in terms of school choice and giving your children the access to one of those other schools.
Do we have enough concrete data yet here in the Tar Heel State on this? Yeah, I think it'll be helpful as more data comes in to get a more complete picture. But as far as examples of some of the districts that I'm thinking about here, I've spoken with some of the leadership in New Hanover County Schools, and that's a district that is an above-average performing district in the state. They have quality leadership, and they are are one of those groups that seem to embrace and sort of understand where we are in the school landscape. I think last time we spoke, I mentioned Union County Schools, and in contrasting with some of the other districts in the And that's another district where their superintendent does an excellent job.
They work together closely with the school board, and that is a district I think that embraces this similar idea of choice is not going anywhere.
So, what can we do internally to make sure that you know the schools that we have in our district are an appealing choice to parents? This should be no surprise to our astute audience here on the Carolina Journal News Hour, Bryce. That of course this discussion is highly political, based on party lines. There's a lot of debates that go on in the North Carolina General Assembly. For the most part, Republicans tend to be on the side of school choice and expanding these opportunities.
Democrats, not all, but most, are of the mindset that this is carving out or decaying away the public education system.
So that argument's very political. But then we look at the polling and the general public sentiment. Sentiment side of it, it's a completely different landscape. It doesn't matter what political party you're with, your age, your race, your gender. No demographics seem to matter.
Publics or school choice is incredibly popular in polling. That's exactly right, and I think that's true in two areas. That's true for things like the opportunity scholarship, where you see bipartisan support, and that might skew a little bit more towards the conservative or the Republican side. But you see voters of all stripes supporting that program. You also see it with avenues like open enrollment, which is something that the John Locke Foundation has worked on a lot in the past year.
It's something that we've spoken about here at Carolina's Academic Leadership Network, and that is that is an avenue of school choice that exists within the traditional public school system. And what that says to parents is, you are not restricted to your zip code, to your residentially assigned school. That you actually have options to enroll your kid, maybe in the school that's, you know, on the other side of town or on the other side of county. And there's questions about logistically, how do we make that happen? But that is a.
Form of school choice that we consistently see achieve high levels of support among the public from from all party sides. You know, it's funny you bring that up. We had a story over at CarolinaJournal dot com earlier this week that North Carolina received a zero out of one hundred points as it relates to this option of sending your kids either in a different school within their district or for neighboring areas where you've got two county borders that are very close, potentially intra county, if. That is realistic based on where you live. That's obviously, at least from this report, would indicate this is a place where the maybe the General Assembly needs to step in and and put some guidelines and guardrails in place as to how something like this should roll out.
Yeah.
So the way that it works right now in North Carolina is there's no law mandating open enrollment statewide. There's also no law standing in the way, and so what that means is districts currently are free to adopt open enrollment policies locally. That's something that we've looked at pretty closely over the last 12 months. It's a handful of districts currently have it. The benefit of having a statewide law would be number one, you get that option in districts that have yet to adopt it, and number two.
You might have some consistency between districts with similar rules and expectations for parents, instead of what I suspect you have now is somewhat of a patchwork and differing approaches between districts.
So, in the state budget, that called for a formal study of open enrollment, and I believe it creates a pathway that we might see some recommended legislation in the future.
So, it's certainly something that lawmakers in Raleigh are thinking about, and it's also something that our school leaders and parents are thinking about too. Yeah.
Yeah, and we've we've again seen that as well. I believe it's the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC Chapel Hill that is the one that is responsible for that report. It's due sometime in 2027 to lawmakers. Not immediately clear, Bryce, whether it will make maybe the state budget depending on when we see that in 2027. But it's obviously something that will be given to lawmakers.
We've seen a lot of education policy changes over the last couple of years. Wouldn't shock me if we're having this discussion 12 or 24 months down the road, and we. Seen a a full kind of a full-blown open enrollment across the entire state. Yeah, and we don't have to look very far. You can just look south of the border here in South Carolina, right?
Which recently enacted interdistrict open enrollment. And to excuse the technical terms here, all that really means is students have the option to transfer between school districts. And that is much more technically complex to pull off because you're talking about these arrangements between different school districts, whereas transfers within the same district is a little bit easier to pull off. The reason that I bring that up is because if South Carolina can enact a law that sets up transfers between districts, there's no reason to think that North Carolina can't do something similar on a smaller scale where students have the option within their their same school district. Would you suspect?
I think you just kind of answered my question, but I'll ask it anyway. Would you suspect that this would be kind of a phased rollout? We'd see internal within the district you have the ability to go to a different school, and this all, of course, deals with what the population level of The school is, and if there's room for additional students, and then potentially if that if that goes well in the future, see some of this intra district stuff. Where, if again geographically, if you live closer to a school in a different county, you may be able to go there. Yeah, I would not be surprised to see North Carolina start with intra-open enrollment, just allowing the transfers within the same district.
And maybe you know you could you could try it in a number of different ways. This could be rolled out as a pilot program where you you tried in a few different districts, or you could do it statewide. But perhaps in the first year, you you have some guardrails in place. Not that those are necessarily needed, but things to smooth out the transition, and you measure how that performs, and then in time you continue to open. The program up so that.
Theoretically, at least, you could have kids transferring across pretty large areas if the parents are able to provide that transportation, or if we can think of a smart solution to get those kids to the schools where they need to be. Yeah, that transportation I've seen in a lot of different kind of feedback and a lot of different reports on this open enrollment. That is one of the big issues: is physically, how do you get these students potentially across a relatively large geographic area? Nevertheless, all of that can be worked out in the details. Great discussion on school choice and open enrollment this morning.
We appreciate the update. Bryce Fielder, the director of the Carolinas Academic Leadership Network, also known as Callen, joins us here on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Good morning again. It's five fifty-five. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, one hundred seven point nine FM, WBT.
Recapping our big story across North Carolina: a federal grand jury has indicted ten non-citizens on charges of lying about their citizenship status and voting illegally in recent North Carolina elections. Eight of the ten defendants appeared in handcuffs and shackles before U.S. magistrate Judge James E. Gates Thursday morning at the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse in downtown Raleigh. Another was detained and showed up after the hearing.
The last of the ten appeared at a courthouse in Newburn. These individuals include three natives of Germany, two of Jamaica, and one each of Canada, Haiti, Panama, and the. Former Yugoslavia. As well as an illegal alien from El Salvador, U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle said at a press conference Thursday afternoon that illegal that the illegal alien was also in possession of a firearm when he was arrested Tuesday and would be facing additional charges for carrying that weapon.
All ten were charged with falsely claiming U.S. citizenship status to vote, and all but one Jamaican Nata national were charged with. One count of voting by an alien. The indictment alleges that the defendants voted in previous elections, some as early as the two the two thousand general election. That's going back twenty six years, and nine as recently as the twenty twenty four general election.
Boyle was joined by a plethora of individuals, including those from the FBI and Homeland Security, at the press conference Thursday in Raleigh. He told reporters very bluntly, "This is the." That they say it never happens. Yet it's happening again and again until we finally have said enough. Every single illegal vote cancels the ballots of an American citizen who followed the rules. This is not a minor hiccup; it is an assault on the constitutional principles of our country, and that only Americans decide American elections.
And as part of this, it is part of the central fabric of our constitutional republic. This brings the. Total number of illegal voters indicted and convicted in the Eastern District of North Carolina to twenty to twelve here in twenty twenty six. We'll continue to follow this story as it plays out. Continuing coverage over on our website carolinajournal dot com.
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