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NC Senate bill to limit access to absentee mail-in voting
Senate Bill 747 will sharply limit access to absentee mail-in voting and seeks to pilot costly and discriminatory signature verification for mail-in voting, while creating more channels for the intimidation of voters and election volunteers as well as challenges to ballots cast.
Photo ID requirements for voting will cost North Carolinians and our state
Recent proposal would block access to the voting booth for North Carolinians with low incomes – Black, white, and brown – and shift election administration costs to the county level
Funding elections protects sacred act of voting
Casting a ballot is a sacred act — it is done on the shoulders of our collective ancestry, ancestors out of whose centuries long subjugation and disenfranchisement was born a vow to build a system in which all people would participate in the administration of our government and the shaping of our future.
Paying for elections in North Carolina
A budget is a reflection of our priorities as a community. The underfunding of election administration raises serious concerns about the commitment of our budget writers to delivering fair and free elections as the foundation of our democracy. Funding increases, particularly in the area of funding access to the ballot box, will be needed to uphold our democracy and the confidence that every vote will be counted and that every voice will be heard.
Early Voting has started in NC — how does funding affect your experience?
How long the wait lines are, how many sites are open, and what machines voters use (along with unseen work outside of voting season to support voter databases and support candidate filing processes) all depend on funding.
