Republicans who control the North Carolina legislature are close to finalizing a far-reaching elections bill that contains a handful of provisions previously vetoed by Democratic Gov.
“I fear that this bill will make it harder to vote,” said Rep. Allan Buansi, an Orange County Democrat. “We have an election system that has stood the test of time and this bill unfortunately threatens that.”
The nation’s ninth-largest state is considered a presidential battleground, and the 2024 race for governor is expected to be highly competitive. The state’s 7.3 million voters already must learn the rules for showing photo voter identification starting with this fall’s municipal elections after the state Supreme CourtThe omnibus measure would again attempt to require that traditional absentee ballots be received by county election offices by the time in-person balloting ends at 7:30 p.m.
Another previously vetoed provision in the bill would direct state courts to send information to election officials aboutbeing disqualified because they aren’t U.S. citizens. Those people could then be removed from voter rolls. The new language says a same-day registrant’s ballot won’t count if their mailed voter registration card is returned to county election officials as undeliverable by the day before a county’s final ballot count. Current law requires two undeliverable mailings.
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