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Legal Questions. Don Wright General Counsel. ELECTION AND RELATED LAWS INDEX. Notes GS ….stands for the North Carolina General Statutes NCAC …..stands for the NC Administrative Code USC.......stands for United States Code CFR…..stands for Code of Federal Regulations

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  1. Legal Questions Don Wright General Counsel

  2. ELECTION AND RELATED LAWS INDEX Notes GS ….stands for the North Carolina General Statutes NCAC …..stands for the NC Administrative Code USC.......stands for United States Code CFR…..stands for Code of Federal Regulations Prepared November, 2005. Please direct any comments or questions to Don Wright, General Counsel, NC State Board of Elections at (919) 733-7173 or don.wright@ncmail.net. The purpose of this index is to provide a quick reference to election inquiries in a non-legal matter. Thus there are many of the same references under multiple headings, so as to allow persons to get access to the information more quickly.

  3. SAMPLE PAGE Absentee Voting Annual Request for Absentee Ballot by Sick or Disabled….GS 163-226(a2) All Voting Data, including provisional and absentee must be reported by precinct…GS 163-132.5G Assistance Allowed or Disallowed…GS 163-226.3(a) Absentee Application: Application on Container-Return Envelope…..GS 163-229(b) County Board to Approve Applications at Special Tuesday Meetings Prior to Election……..GS 163-230.1(c), (c1) Disapproval of Application…….GS 163-227.2 Excuse No Longer a Requirement to Vote Absentee….GS 163-226 (a1)(deleted) Register of Absentee Requests, Applications, and Ballots Issued…..GS 163-228

  4. NEW LAW BOOK More Federal Laws More Constitutional Provisions Will be supplemented after next session of the General Assembly

  5. How to read a state statuteGS 163-82.9 § 163‑82.9.  Cancellation of prior registration. If an applicant indicates on an application form described in G.S. 163‑82.3 a current registration to vote in any other county, municipality, or state, the county board of elections, upon registering the person to vote, shall send a notice to the appropriate officials in the other county, municipality, or state and shall ask them to cancel the person's voter registration there. (1973, c. 793, s. 28; c. 1223, s. 4; 1977, c. 265, s. 3; 1983, c. 411, ss. 1, 2; 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 762, s. 2; 1995, c. 509, s. 115.)

  6. How to read a federal statute 42 USC Sec. 1973aa-6 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 20--ELECTIVE FRANCHISE SUBCHAPTER I-B--SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS Sec. 1973aa-6. Voting assistance for blind, disabled or illiterate persons. Any voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to read or write may be given assistance by a person of the voter's choice, other than the voter's employer or agent of that employer or officer or agent of the voter's union. (Pub. L. 89-110, title II, Sec. 208, as added Pub. L. 97-205, Sec. 5, June 29, 1982, 96 Stat. 135.)

  7. Annotations • History • Special Notes • Cases that have considered the statute and the case holding and citation

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