Free the Vote North Carolina (founded in June 2008) is a North Carolina-focused Political Action Committee with the primary goal of lobbying for ballot access reform, to reduce burden on political third parties and unaffiliated candidates.

The group seeks to educate North Carolinians about ballot access in their state, and equip voters with the knowledge of where candidates stand on voting right.

In 2009, the NCFPE introduced its first legislative project in ballot access law with its Electoral Freedom Act of 2009.

[4] On February 3, 2011, Free the Vote North Carolina's 2011 ballot access reform bill proposal was introduced by State Representatives Stephen LaRoque, Glen Bradley, Paul Luebke and Jean Farmer-Butterfield in the form of House Bill 32 – the Electoral Freedom Act of 2011.

[9][10][11] Free the Vote North Carolina supported Stephen LaRoque in a case in Kinston, NC, where the US Department of Justice used Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to deny a voter-approved referendum to change all local elections into non-partisan races.