Welcome to the North Carolinians for Free and Proper Elections, we are a group of concerned citizens from across the political spectrum that see a need for truly free and competitive elections in the State of North Carolina. We are Constitutionalist, Democrats, Greens, Libertarians, Whigs, Republicans, Independents and others who have come together to stand up for the North Carolinian's right to vote and to vote effectively.

In North Carolina the citizen's right to vote has been unjustifiably suppressed since 1901 with the introduction of the state-regulated ballot. Though North Carolina has seen many changes in its election law, since the dramatic lockdown on political competition in 1983 the problem of ballot access has remained a major obstacle for anyone outside the two major parties at the ballot box for nearly three decades and continues to worsen. We believe these laws to be a burden upon our constitutionally protected rights and a high-price to pay for expediency for the politically affluent two major parties and incumbents. It is our primary goal to see competition restored to the North Carolina election ballot and to give the people of North Carolina back their right to vote by reducing or eliminating the burden of North Carolina's oppressive ballot access regulations, while also aiming to research and push for other electoral reforms in such areas as the electoral college and campaign finances.

We hope that you will take a look around the website, learn more about the ballot issue, and see what you can do to help make North Carolina elections free and open once more. As the justices of the US Supreme Court said in the first ballot access case to reach the court, "'No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined'" (Williams v. Rhodes 1968). For without freedom we are but pawns, and without the right to vote there is no freedom, just a privilege with the illusion of freedom.

Please consider donating today to help us fight more effectively for the right to vote in North Carolina