The strategy culminated on January 6, in an effort to disrupt the counting of electoral votes by Congress—an effort supported by nearly 150 Republican legislators, against the backdrop of a violent insurrection that came shockingly close to succeeding. Seven of the eight Republicans in our state’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives voted to overturn the 2020 election results–and were thus complicit in the insurrection, directly or indirectly. Thus far, our state has largely avoided the wave of election subversion legislation that has swept through other states such as Georgia and Tennessee–thanks in part to Governor Cooper’s veto and in part to the fact that our elections are run by a professional, non-partisan staff governed by a bipartisan board.