GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 380

HOUSE BILL 800

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT A LETTER RETURNED BECAUSE THE PERSON NO LONGER LIVES AT AN ADDRESS SHALL NOT BE ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE IN A CHALLENGE MADE ON THE DAY OF A PRIMARY OR ELECTION, AND TO CLARIFY THE NATURE OF SWORN TESTIMONY AS TO IDENTITY AND RESIDENCE OF THE VOTER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-88 is amended by adding the following at the end:  "A letter or postal card mailed by returnable mail and returned by the United States Postal Service purportedly because the person no longer lives at that address or because a forwarding order has expired shall not be admissible evidence in a challenge heard under this section which was made under G.S. 163-87."

Sec. 1.1.  G.S. 163-88 is further amended in the first paragraph by deleting "by the sworn testimony of at least one registered voter of the precinct", and substituting "by sworn testimony".

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective with respect to elections held on or after September 1, 1985.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1985.