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Board member asks Buncombe County elections staff to place state memo on future agenda about registration-drive forms
Summary
A board member asked that a notice from the State Board of Elections — that counties will no longer receive the N17 voter-registration drive form — be placed on a future agenda so the county can clarify whether it will print forms and learn what complaint prompted the change.
Board member Sally asked the Buncombe County Board of Elections to put an item on a future agenda to discuss a notice she said the county received from the State Board of Elections indicating the state will no longer provide the N17 voter-registration drive form.
Sally said she had questions she did not want to forget: whether Buncombe County would choose to print registration-drive forms locally for use in drives, and what county-level complaint, if any, had prompted the state's action. "What will Buncombe County's role be in printing them here?" she asked.
A staff member told the board the county had received an email from the state board indicating it would no longer provide registration-drive forms and that the state would be working on rules; the staffer said the NCAC is where those rules are issued. The board agreed to place the item on a future agenda so the questions could be addressed in more detail.
The board did not take a policy vote on the matter at the meeting; staff committed to follow up with the board when more information from the state and the NCAC rules is available.
