Voting by mail, Election Day holiday recommended for NC's November election
If the State Board of Elections gets everything it asked for Tuesday from the General Assembly, Election Day will become a state holiday and look very different.
Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell asked lawmakers to consider 15 changes to the state’s elections during the House Select Committee on COVID-19 Continuity of State meeting, explaining that she is planning for a pandemic-infested election.
She is asking lawmakers to clarify in the law whether boards of elections can hold telephonic meetings, a request many local governments have also made. And that will be important as the state board decides how to handle the November election.
Bell said when looking toward November and factoring in that absentee ballots are sent out in September, she has three months to develop a long-term strategy after the legislature’s short session.
One of her first considerations for November is possibly doing all mail-in ballots. But to do that demands drop boxes, mail sorters, workers to open the mail, expensive high-speed scanner equipment, warehouses and a legislative change.
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