NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 947

HOUSE BILL 1178

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE CERTAIN CHANGES IN THE ABSENTEE VOTING LAWS TO SIMPLIFY PROCEDURES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-227(1) is hereby amended by rewriting and combining the second and third paragraphs to read as follows:

"The applicant shall sign his application personally. The application form when properly filled out shall be transmitted by mail or delivered in person by the applicant to the chairman or the executive secretary of the county board of elections." and amend the form of the application by inserting in the second paragraph, immediately after the word "chairman" the words "or executive secretary" and by deleting all of that portion of the form appearing after the applicant's signature and address.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 163-227(2) is amended by deleting all of paragraph three thereof, and by rewriting the fourth paragraph to read as follows:

"The application form, when properly filled out, shall be transmitted by mail or delivered in person by the applicant to the chairman or executive secretary of the county board of elections of the county in which he is registered." and amend the form of the application by inserting the words "or executive secretary" immediately after the word "chairman" in the second paragraph of the application, and by deleting that portion of the form appearing after the applicant's signature and address.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 163-227(3) is hereby amended by inserting in the fifth paragraph, immediately after the word "chairman" the words "or executive secretary", and by inserting in the second paragraph of the application form, immediately after the word "chairman" the words "or executive secretary".

Sec. 4.  G.S. 163-227(5) is hereby amended by inserting after the word "chairman" the words "or executive secretary".

Sec. 5.  G.S. 163-227(4) is hereby amended by adding at the end of the last paragraph the following:

"Provided, that the chairman may deliver to a voter only the voter's application, and where proper request has been made, the application of the voter's spouse, and the voter may deliver the application to his spouse."

Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of July, 1971.