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Finally, #SB326 is up: shrinking both the absentee request deadline and absentee ballot receipt deadline. Sen. Marcus shares our problem with it: voters don't know when they'd have to mail in their ballot to ensure it will be counted.
"This is voter disenfranchisement, not Election Integrity". Sen. Marcus. Votes will be thrown out just because of arriving after Election Day, even if it were submitted by then or even before!
Sen. Clark points out the hypocrisy of this bill that sponsors want to "know the winners on election night" but military absentee ballots still get to be counted well after ED, because the County Canvass is the real day to finalize the winners (a fully week after Election Day).
Senate Bill 326 (Jim Crow 2.0) is back. And has now been split into 3 different bills: #SB326 #SB724 and #SB725 They’re trying to make it harder for us to fight by making it more confusing, but we’re still here!
The Senate Elections & Redistricting Committee is meeting at 11 am to discuss these 3 bills, you can watch it all go down here: ncleg.gov/LegislativeCal… #ncga #ncpol
If you don’t remember, #SB326 threatens to disenfranchise over 11,000 voters, many identifying as Black, brown, or Indigenous people, by making it harder to vote by mail.
