GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH
CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 351
HOUSE
BILL 166
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE ALAMANCE,
COLUMBUS, FORSYTH, FRANKLIN, GASTON, HARNETT, HERTFORD, JOHNSTON, MARTIN, NORTHAMPTON,
RANDOLPH, ROBESON, ROWAN, SCOTLAND, AND WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTIONS
SHALL PURGE VOTER REGISTRATION ROLLS UNDER GENERAL LAW PROVIDING FOR REMOVAL
AFTER FAILURE TO VOTE IN TWO SUCCESSIVE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND ALL
ELECTIONS BETWEEN THEM, RATHER THAN A RECENTLY DISCOVERED LOCAL ACT, WHICH HAD
NOT BEEN FOLLOWED, PROVIDING FOR REMOVAL AFTER FAILURE TO VOTE FOR SIX YEARS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 1 1/2 of Chapter 1116, Session
Laws of 1965, as amended by Chapters 576 and 927, Session Laws of 1969, is
repealed.
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this
the 19th day of June, 1989.