GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	2 

SENATE BILL 568
Second Edition Engrossed 4/21/99

Short Title:  One-Stop Voting Sites.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Kinnaird; Gulley, Lee, and Miller.

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Referred to:  Judiciary II.

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March 29, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REMOVE THE EXCUSE REQUIREMENT FROM ONE-STOP ABSENTEE VOTING AND TO PERMIT COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTIONS TO DESIGNATE ADDITIONAL SITES FOR ONE-STOP ABSENTEE VOTING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 163-227.2(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	A person expecting not to be present at the polling place in which that person is registered during the entire period that the polls are open on the day of an election in which absentee ballots are authorized may request an application for absentee ballots, complete the application, receive the absentee ballots, vote and deliver them sealed in a container-return envelope to the county board of elections in the county in which he is registered under the provisions of this section."
Section 2.  G.S. 163-227.2 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"( f1)	Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a county board of elections may provide for one or more sites in that county for absentee ballots to be applied for and cast under this section.  Those sites must be approved by the State Board of Elections as part of a Plan for Implementation approved by both the county board of elections and by the State Board of Elections which shall also provide adequate security of the ballots and provisions to avoid allowing persons to vote who have already voted."
Section 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.