SB382 was passed by the NC House and Senate and then Governor Cooper vetoed the bill in November. The NC Senate overrode the veto. The NC House then needed to do the same. It was imperative that the House override the veto before the new 2025 Session since they lost their supermajority.
On Wednesday, December 11, 2024, the North Carolina House of Representatives voted 72-46 to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the controversial bill, making it law. Hallelujah!
The SB382 provides money for Western North Carolina hurricane victims. It transfers authority of our elections from the governor to the NC Auditor. Most welcome - Changes control of the Board of Elections.
NCSBE is now the State Board. Most significantly, the composition of county BOEs changes. There will still be five Board of Elections members. But, the State chair of the two political parties having the highest number of registered affiliates as reflected by the latest registration statistics published by the State Board shall have the right to recommend to the State Board three registered voters in each county for appointment to the county board for that county. Specifically, SB 382 pushes up the deadline to process provisional and absentee ballots.
See Transfer of State Board of Elections to Auditor pg 30 to pg 40, Section 3A.4 (h)
We now have to give the Auditor the tools he needs to conduct a true forensic audit complete with cast vote records as in SB770. Stay tuned. We've much work to do to secure transparent elections where citizen identification for each ballot cast is mandatory.
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