As the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Thursday agreed conditionally to extend the deadline for 44 boards of election across the eastern part of the state to turn in documents requested in a federal subpoena, United States Congressman G.K. Butterfield and other Democratic lawmakers called for an investigation into the matter.
Congressman G.K. Butterfield and Congressman David Price today issued a joint statement in response to news the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued subpoenas to the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the 44 counties of the eastern district to obtain voting records from January 1, 2010 to August 30 and August 30, 2013 to August 30, 2018.
Weldon native Gentry O. Smith was sworn in Tuesday as the director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Foreign Missions, a position that comes with the rank of ambassador.