Legislative Call to Action
Next week there will be different priorities to make calls.
Thank you for your time to protect election integrity.
There are many election integrity bills in the North Carolina General Assembly. NCEIT supports many of them and this week we would like to concentrate on two important bills. Call your legislators shown below to get these bills to move through the process. See the 3 types of calls you can make.
• Poll Observers - House Bill 772 and
• Access to Voted Ballots (Cast Vote Records) - House Bill 770
These bills which were submitted by House Republicans include the language suggested by NCEIT. We would like you to contact legislators to let them know YOU support H 772 and H 770 and
1. These are the sponsors of the bills - thank them and let them know you support the bills.
H 772 Poll Observer Davis; Cleveland; Mills; Warren (Primary) Blackwell; Cairns; Clampitt; Kidwell; McNeely; Miller; Riddell See the bill here https://www.ncleg.gov/Committees/CommitteeInfo/HouseStanding/21
H 770 Access to Ballots Davis; Cleveland; Mills; Warren (Primary) Cairns; Humphrey; McNeely See the bill here https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/h770
2. These are committee members who will vote on the bills– let them know you support the bills.
a. Ask members of the House Election Law & Campaign Finance Reform Committee to pass the
bills in their committee because they are important election integrity measures (use your own
words).
Use this link to find contact info for the members. Click on their names. https://www.ncleg.gov/Committees/CommitteeInfo/HouseStanding/21
b. Ask members of the Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee to be a SPONSOR for similar
bills in the Senate because they are important election integrity measures (use your own words).
Use this link to find contact info for the members and click on their names. https://www.ncleg.gov/Committees/CommitteeInfo/SenateStanding/154
3. Let your House and Senate legislators know that you support these bills.
You can identify your NC House and Senate members with this link https://www.ncleg.gov/FindYourLegislators. Click on the name and it usually brings you to a page with contact info.
If it does not, use these links to find the contact info and click on their name. House https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/MemberList/H Senate
Talking points to show why you support the bill - select a 1 or 2 to highlight for the legislators.
H 772 Poll Observers See this link to the bill: https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2023/Bills/House/PDF/H772v1.pdf
· A new section has been added that lists 19 activities that observers are permitted to do which addresses problems observed in the 2022 election.
(If you have been an observer and were not allowed to perform an activity, you could highlight that. If you were not an observer, you could pick one or two you like.)
· There is also a list of 8 activities that are not permitted by observers, so they do not interfere with the voting process.
· There is a new procedure for removing observers.
· The bill includes a Class 1 misdemeanor for any election official who restricts or denies observer access greater than what is allowed by the law.
H 770 Access to Voted Ballots (Cast Vote Records) See this link to the bill: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/h770
· Public records requests for Cast Vote Records have been denied by the NC State Board of Elections based on confidentiality. They have been available in other states. The bill provides access to the public of cast vote records through public records requests.
· Access to Cast Vote Records is needed for inspection and verification of machine counts of ballots, so they can be matched to the machine’s printed reports. Without this access, voters lose confidence in the accuracy of machines and the outcomes of elections.
· The bill requires voting systems to create and maintain cast vote records.
· The bill includes a Class 1 misdemeanor for knowingly disclosing how an individual has voted that ballot.
Next week there will be different priorities to make calls.
Thank you for your time to protect election integrity.