Joselle Torres, with Democracy North Carolina, an election and voter advocacy group, speaks at a news conference outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Torres and other speakers urged lawmakers to uphold the vetoes of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on several bills.
The previous law said that while the same-day registrant’s ballot could be formally challenged, the applicant would still be permitted to vote if the two-step mailing verification wasn’t completed by the election. The new restrictions, including the lack of an appeal process, create new barriers to voting that violate the U.S. Constitution and civil rights law, the lawsuit says.
Within hours of last week’s override, one lawsuit challenging same-day registration changes was filed by the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic Party, with another filed by voting rights groups and individuals. They cite statements by Stein, who is running for governor in 2024, in opposition to the law. On the day of Cooper’s veto, a Stein campaign press release referred to the legislation as a “voter suppression” effort and quoted Stein as blaming “far-right politicians in the legislature” for “putting up barriers to the ballot box.”
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