North Carolina’s election night results will remain unofficial while county boards review outstanding ballots and conduct public checks before certifying their totals, the State Board of Elections said in guidance released Tuesday.
Gov. Josh Stein vetoed House Bill 958, an election bill affecting early voting, ballot challenges and election oversight.
A North Carolina election administration bill became law Tuesday, extending several ballot cure deadlines and changing procedures for absentee ballots, provisional ballots, early voting equipment and court review of State Board of Elections decisions.
House Bill 834 would change ballot cure deadlines, absentee ballot procedures and judicial review rules for State Board of Elections decisions.
A broad election-law bill affecting voter registration, precinct officials, party-primary eligibility and campaign finance reporting is on Gov. Josh Stein’s desk.
House Bill 958, a broad statewide election law bill, is scheduled for consideration in the North Carolina House on June 30.
House Bill 958, titled “Election Law Changes,” remains active in the House and would amend several sections of North Carolina election law.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections has identified approximately 34,000 deceased individuals on the state’s voter rolls following a comprehensive data comparison with the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database.
Some partisans I know insist political allegiances are so rigid that elections have become little more than turnout contests. Whichever party gets its base out wins. Persuadable swing voters used to exist in significant numbers, they concede, but are now about as hard to find as Bigfoot.
State legislative leaders want the N.C. Court of Appeals to block a ruling that could add 56,000 felons to the state's voting rolls. A trial court issued the ruling Monday. It would open up voting to felons on parole, probation, or other post-release supervision.
A three-judge Superior Court panel has ruled, 2-1, that felons who have completed their prison sentences in North Carolina must be permitted to vote. The ruling strikes down a 1973 state law that blocked voting by felons on probation, parole, or post-release supervision.
Unaffiliated voters have overtaken Democrats as the largest voting group in North Carolina, according to the latest data from the N.C. State Board of Elections.
