by Christian Baldwin, The Daily Caller:
North Carolina officials have altered voter procedures in the wake of Hurricane Helene causing widespread destruction in the key battleground state.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections issued an emergency declaration Monday altering North Carolina’s voter procedures in response to the devastation from Hurricane Helene. North Carolina § 163‑27.1 vests the Board with emergency powers in the event of “a natural disaster” or “extremely inclement weather.” The declaration authorizes county election boards in 13 affected counties to take a “bipartisan majority vote” on several measures.
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Among these measures are changing or adding early voting sites, as well as the time said sites are available for voters, and moving one voting precinct’s space to be adjacent to another while keeping the voting and tabulation materials separate. Provisions are also to be made by county boards for accepting absentee ballots from close family members and designated legal guardians for precinct residents unable to turn them in themselves.
Such absentee ballots can be turned in at the voter’s county up to 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on the day of the election. Alternatively, they can also be received via other counties’ precincts as long as they were turned into the county election board or the State Board by that time and transferred to the board of the voter’s county the day prior to the county canvass. Provisions for spoilage and reissuing of a ballot as well as ballot curing are referenced.
The declaration also allows county election boards to deploy “Multipartisan Assistance Teams” of registered North Carolina voters “to assist with absentee ballot requests and absentee voting at disaster shelters and other places where disaster relief is provided to the general public.”
