URGENT! Now Through July 5: Speak Out Against Signature-Matching Protocol for Absentee Ballots
Just heard about this today, it came through the league of women voters in NC.
Please get the word out over this holiday weekend to submit comments.
Type: News
June 15, 2022 – The NC State Board of Elections (NCSBE) has opened a public comment period in response to a Request for Declaratory Ruling proposed by the NC Republican Party. The proposed Declaratory Ruling would allow individual members of county boards of elections to verify signatures on absentee ballots. The public comment period closes on July 5, 2022.
The proposal would authorize county boards of elections to scrutinize voter signatures on absentee ballot request forms and absentee ballot return envelopes, to determine whether to count those ballots in North Carolina elections. This could overrule the authority of the NCSBE to require uniform ballot review methods across all counties so that all voters, regardless of residency, have an equal right to have their vote count. In short, disparate voting standards could be implemented for voters across the state, as individual county board members could be allowed to determine whether a voter’s signature on an absentee ballot container envelope or request form matched their signature on file.
A hearing is scheduled for July and then this will make its way through the courts – with the goal of this being implemented in time for the November midterms.
This is urgent – all public comments must be submitted by July 5. We need thousands of North Carolina voters to push back on this proposed change using the NCSBE comment portal.
(more at link)
http://my.lwv.org/north-carolina-state/article/now-through-july-5-speak-out-against-signature-matching-protocol-absentee-ballots
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