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A bipartisan group of North Carolina election officials is urging Republican lawmakers to unfreeze $4 million in federal money that they say is necessary to accommodate a large voter turnout and ensure the integrity of the 2012 ballot.

Democracy North Carolina, a liberal-leaning election advocacy group, issued a memorandum that puts a potential stalemate in stark terms: "North Carolina could become the next Florida." Read more here.

The Democratic governor's race is off to a rocky start for former Congressman Bob Etheridge. Read more about it here.

And read more from the Associated Press about the legal wrangling about redistricting after the court's ruling Tuesday.

In Wake County, control of the school board rests in one run-off election schedule for November. As pundits suggested to columnist Rob Christensen in this morning's analysis of the local races, it could be "a mega race."

Given the attention on Wake County's school diversity policy -- and Democrats' interest in the state ahead of the 2012 election -- the race is likely to get significant attention.

Democrats nearly swept local races with a high-dollar get-out-the-vote effort that boosted early voting-- a microcosm of what the party will need to repeat victory on a statewide basis a year from now. Will this only reinvigorate the GOP-controlled N.C. General Assembly to limit early voting, and stem the blue tide?

Read more analysis on the broader implications of the local races and use the comment section to offer your own punditry.