Republicans in the NC state legislature and on the NC state Board of Elections have recently advanced some anti-democracy proposals.

We need to all speak out against them, before the proposals get finalized, and it becomes harder and harder to cast votes and have them counted!!!

State Legislators

Extremist politicians are trying to gut early voting in North Carolina. We need your help to stop this anti-voter bill.

Some North Carolina Republican legislators have proposed a bill to take away voting options that millions of North Carolinians rely on, including voters who put them in office.

Contact Sen. Bobby Hanig now and tell him you OPPOSE anti-voter Senate Bill 1084.

Senate Bill 1084 would cut a full week of early voting, severely limiting the ability of North Carolinians like you to use this most popular way to vote.

• North Carolinians increasingly prefer to vote early – 74% of all ballots cast in the 2024 general election were during early voting. And more voters cast early ballots in North Carolina’s 2026 midterm primaries than in the 2024 presidential primary.

• Reality check: early voting helps keep voters safe, allows North Carolinians to avoid long lines on Election Day, and lets them cast a ballot at any early voting site in their county where they feel it’s most convenient.

• Fact: early voting is used widely by voters of all parties, as well as unaffiliated voters. If these politicians succeed in stealing a week of early voting from North Carolinians, it would be devastating to older voters, working North Carolinians and college students, all of whom  need flexibility as to when they cast their ballot.

• Cuts to early voting would also drastically limit same-day voter registration, which is an especially helpful tool for first-time voters, voters who have moved since the last election, and voters who may experience problems at the polls.

• These changes would also cause widespread confusion among voters and chaos in our election system. And many counties have already begun to finalize their early voting plans for the general election.

Bottom line: Senate Bill 1084 is a harmful, anti-voter proposal that must be defeated.

Call or email Sen Bobby Hanig TODAY: (Ph: 919-733-4111; email through web page: North Carolina General Assembly)

Urge North Carolina Sen. Bobby Hanig to OPPOSE Senate Bill 1084!

Board of Elections

The North Carolina State Board of Elections is proposing three new rules that would harm voters. We need your help to stop these changes from taking effect.

These proposed anti-voter rule changes would:

• open the door for county boards to reject certain ballots along party lines

  • Current rules require a unanimous vote to reject a provisional ballot cast using a voter ID exception form.

  • But the proposed new rules would allow county boards to reject those ballots on party lines 3-2 (currently all 100 county boards are governed by 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats) if they have “grounds to believe” the reasonable impediment form is false.

• limit certain types of constitutionally protected gatherings at polling sites

  • Specifically, new rules would ban any form of sound amplification at the polls and would allow voting site judges to remove anyone standing outside of a polling place if their voice can be heard from inside the voting enclosure.

  • The rules give voting site judges wide latitude to overpolice constitutionally protected free speech activities outside the polling place that are designed to encourage voters exercising their sacred right to vote.

• make it even harder to vote by mail (and harder to have those ballots count)

  • For example, the board would flag voters who did not put their completed absentee ballot in the specified ballot envelope (but did place the ballot within the larger sealed outer return envelope) or voters where members of the same household returned ballots in one another’s envelopes.

  • The current rules let the county board of elections use its common sense to weigh the facts in favor of counting the ballot.

  • But the new rules would upend this by requiring the voter to cure the irregularity through written attestation, which is an unnecessary extra step that will likely lead to ballots being tossed.

We are urging the State Board of Elections to REJECT these anti-voter rules and instead protect voters’ rights. 

Here’s how you can help: The Board of Elections has opened a public comment portal where you can voice your opposition to these harmful rules.

TAKE ACTION: Visit Public Comment Portal: 2026 Rulemaking - Absentee Voting | NCSBE

(the public comment portal) to speak out ASAP, but no later than July 14!

Your voice has power! The state board is required by law to consider all public comments, so every comment provided counts!

Remember: earlier this year, the state board received over 15,000 comments regarding its new SAVE database rules, forcing them to delay their vote and reconsider their original plans.

Together, let’s show them that we’ll speak up for our freedom to vote and demand that our elections are free and fair for all.

In solidarity,

-Susan & Miriam