NC voting rules updated, while Republican elections board members seek more ways to ID noncitizens

Voters whose names or birth dates don’t match ID numbers in the state registration file won’t automatically have to use provisional ballots after all, under revised instructions the state Board of Elections approved Monday.

The latest revisions to efforts to collect and validate government IDs come after Democrats on the state Board objected at its last meeting to the requirement that voters whose names or birth dates did not match identifiers in government databases would need to continually use provisional ballots until the mismatches were resolved.

The state Board of Elections is trying to collect driver’s license numbers or partial Social Security numbers from voters who don’t have either of those identifiers connected to their names in the state voter registration database.

In some cases, voters may not have supplied the numbers. In other cases, misspelled names, transposed numbers in dates of birth, or changed names created data mismatches.




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