N.C. counties set to begin updating, verifying registered voters
The 2020 election brought out 178,000 votes tallied in New Hanover County. (Port City Daily/Johanna Still) NEW HANOVER COUNTY — One of the controversial election-related actions in recent years has been the purging of voter rolls — the official records of people who are registered to vote. That status is a critical part of a person’s ability to vote in an election. Both state and federal laws require that states’ rolls of registered voters are “accurate and up to date,” according to a news release sent Thursday by the N.C. Board of Elections (BOE). “Accurate voter rolls ar...
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