NC voters who make mistakes on mail-in ballots will now have an easier way to fix them BY WILL DORAN
People who mess up their mail-in ballots will have an easier time fixing them in order to make sure their vote doesn’t get thrown out, under a deal to resolve a lawsuit against North Carolina.
The N.C. State Board of Elections announced Tuesday that it has tentatively reached a settlement with a political group representing retirees that had sued over the state’s various rules for mail-in voting.
In addition to creating new rules making it easier for people to fix issues on their mail-in ballots, the settlement would also extend the amount of time after the election that absentee ballots could come in and still be counted.
Although the settlement was agreed upon unanimously by the state election board’s five members — three Democrats and two Republicans — North Carolina’s top GOP lawmakers fiercely criticized the settlement after it was announced.
N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, a Republican from Cleveland County, said the changes would “gut the integrity of North Carolina voting laws” and that he was looking into legal options to stop them from happening.
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