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Elections director briefs board on litigation, party recognition and bills that would cut early voting
Summary
Rockingham County elections staff updated the board on a lawsuit over changes to the State Board of Elections, proposed bills to shorten early voting windows, changes to party recognition and other state-level items; no county action was taken.
Paula Seemster, director of the Rockingham County Board of Elections, updated the board on several state-level legal and legislative developments that could affect election administration.
Seemster said a protest related to North Carolina Supreme Court Seat 6 will be heard by a three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She named the judges who will hear the case—John Tyson, Fred Gore and Toby Hampton—and said oral arguments will proceed before the panel. The board was told an earlier motion to have the full Court of Appeals hear the case was overruled.
Seemster reviewed pending legislation. She said House Bill 66, introduced in February, would reduce early voting to begin on the second Monday before an election and end the Saturday before Election Day, for a…
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