NC lawmakers moving to open more early voting sites in some Helene-impacted counties

In addition to passing more Hurricane Helene relief, GOP state lawmakers planned to take up legislation Thursday directing local officials in Western North Carolina to open more early voting sites.

The bill, which was to be taken up as a substitute version of existing Senate Bill 132, directs local boards of elections in 13 counties impacted by Helene to make sure that there is at least one early voting site for every 30,000 registered voters in each county.

It was not immediately clear how many counties would have to open additional sites. The 13 counties the bill applies to are Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania, Watauga, and Yancey counties.

After the storm, Buncombe and McDowell counties removed some early voting sites, while some other counties changed their early voting site locations but kept the same total number of sites they had originally planned on.





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