Bill Text: NC S38 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Allow County-Wide Challenges/Absentee Ballots

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-19 - Re-ref to Select Committee on Elections. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate [S38 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2017-S38-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2017

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SENATE BILL 38

 

 

Short Title:      Allow County-Wide Challenges/Absentee Ballots.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Cook (Primary Sponsor);  Krawiec and Rabin.
Referred to:	Rules and Operations of the Senate

February 8, 2017

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to amend the laws pertaining to procedures for challenging absentee ballots to allow a registered voter to challenge an absentee ballot by county versus precinct.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 163‑89(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      Who May Challenge. – Any registered voter of the same precinct as the absentee votercounty may challenge that a voter's absentee ballot."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.