State elections officials are clearing the way for counties to eliminate Sunday voting — a decision that came Wednesday after contentious debate during a meeting of the newly Republican-led North Carolina State Board of Elections.

Officials punted on another political debate, however, deciding not to take up a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to turn over voter data to federal immigration officials, at least at this time. In other action, they also came up with a plan for early voting sites in Fayetteville .

The decision to allow counties to eliminate Sunday voting only immediately applied to 2025 municipal election voting plans. But it could foreshadow more widespread eliminations in the 2026 midterms.

It was met with strong criticism from Democrats on the electio

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