NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 789

HOUSE BILL 1044

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO CLARIFY REGISTRATION RECORDS OF PERSONS AFFILIATED WITH AN EXPIRED POLITICAL PARTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 9, Chapter 163 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3D, is amended by adding a new section to be numbered and to read as follows:

"§ 163-97.1.  Voters affiliated with expired political party. — The State Board of Elections shall be authorized to promulgate appropriate procedures to order the county boards of elections to change the registration affiliation of all voters who are recorded on the voter registration books as being affiliated with a political party which has lost its legal status as provided in G.S. 163-97. The State Board of Elections shall not implement the authority contained in this act earlier than 90 days following the certification of the election in which the political party failed to continue its legal status as provided in G.S. 163-97. All voters affiliated with such expired political party shall be changed to 'no party' designation by the State Board's order and all such registrants shall be entitled to declare a political party affiliation on primary election day, consistent with the provisions contained in G.S. 163-74(a)."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1975.