NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 737

HOUSE BILL 620

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 391, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1937, RELATING TO ASSISTANCE TO VOTERS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 391, Public Laws of 1937, is hereby amended by rewriting the last paragraph thereof to read as follows:

"Any person who, on account of blindness or other obvious physical disability, is unable to enter the voting booth without assistance or who is unable to mark the ballot because of such physical disability may request assistance from the registrar, and if the precinct election officials determine that the voter cannot mark the ballot because of such physical disability then and in that event the voter may, upon request, be assisted by the registrar in any primary, special, municipal or general election held in Cherokee County."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of May, 1965.