More on the North Carolina primary
Richard Winger, editor/owner/guru of Ballot Access News, emailed:
North Carolina State Board of Elections not only postponed the primary, it postponed the petition deadline for independent candidates. I verified this with a phone call to the Board's legal guy. They were smart to do that, since they didn't do it in 2002 and got sued over it.
As usual, Richard would be the one to ask, if one had only thought of the question.