RESTORE EARLY VOTING DAYS.

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View NCGA Bill Details2016 Extra Session 3
House Bill 5 (Public) Filed Tuesday, December 13, 2016
AN ACT THAT RESTORES THE NUMBER OF EARLY VOTING DAYS TO THE NUMBER OF DAYS PRIOR TO THE ENACTMENT OF THE VOTER INFORMATION VERIFICATION ACT.
Intro. by L. Hall.

Status: Ref To Com On Elections (House Action) (Dec 13 2016)

Bill History:

H 5

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Dec 13 2016 - View Summary

    Amends GS 163-227.2, which provides for alternate procedures for requesting an absentee ballot and procedures for one-stop voting, to extend early voting days.

    Allows a voter to appear in person at the office of the county board of elections to vote in an election in which absentee ballots are authorized not earlier than the third Thursday (previously, the second Thursday) before an election and not later than 1:00 pm on the last Saturday before that election. Allows a county board of elections to conduct one-stop voting on the last Saturday before the election until 5:00 pm (previously, until 1:00 pm).

    Eliminates requirement for any Plan for Implementation adopted by either the county board of elections or the State Board of Elections under subsection (g) of the statute to have the same days and hours for site operation countywide. Eliminates subsection (g2), which requires any county board of elections to offer at least the same number of hours offered in the 2010 or 2012 primary and general elections if that county provided for one or more sites for absentee ballots to be applied for and voted. Eliminates provision allowing the State Board to approve or deny one-stop voting sites in a building that the county board of elections is not entitled to under GS 163-129. Makes conforming change and eliminates subsection (g3), which authorizes a county board of elections to submit a request to the State Board to reduce the number of hours established under subsection (g2) for a primary or a general election.

    Applies to elections held on or after September 1, 2017.