NCEIT Recommendations for Voter Registration: Proof of Citizenship

General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 H958-PCS30501-CMe-21 House Bill 958 Page 13 1

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REQUIRE APPLICANTS TO PROVIDE FULL SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ON VOTER REGISTRATION FORM SECTION 2.13.(a) G.S. 163-82.4 reads as rewritten:  "§ 163-82.4. Contents of application form.

 (a) Information Requested of Applicant. – The form required by G.S. 163-82.3(a) shall request the applicant's: all of the following from the applicant:

(1) Name, Full Legal Name. 

(2) Date of birth,birth.

(3) Residence address,address.

(4) County of residence,residence.

(5) Date of application,application.

(6) Gender,Gender.

(7) Race,Race.

(8) Ethnicity,Ethnicity.

(9) Political party affiliation, if any, in accordance with subsection (d) of this section,section. 

(10) Telephone number (to assist the county board of elections in contacting the voter if needed in processing the application,) application).

 (11) Drivers license number or, number, if the applicant does not have has a drivers license number, the last four digits of the applicant's social security number, number.

(12) and any Any other information the State Board finds is necessary to enable officials of the county where the person resides to satisfactorily process the application.

(13) The In addition, the form shall require the applicant to provide the applicant's full social security number and

(14) require the applicant to state whether the applicant is currently registered to vote anywhere, and at what address, so that any prior registration can be cancelled.

(15) require proof of citizenship

The portions of the form concerning race and ethnicity shall include as a choice any category shown by the most recent decennial federal census to compose at least one percent (1%) of the total population of North Carolina. The county board shall make a diligent effort to complete for the registration records any information requested on the form that the applicant does not complete, but no application shall be denied because an applicant does not state race, ethnicity, gender, or telephone number. The application shall conspicuously state that provision of the applicant's telephone number is optional. If the county board maintains voter records on computer, the free list provided under this subsection shall include telephone numbers if the county board enters the telephone number into its computer records of voters.

(b) No Drivers License or Social Security Number Issued. – The State Board shall assign a unique identifier number to an applicant for voter registration if the applicant has not been issued either a current and valid drivers license or a social security number. That unique identifier number shall serve to identify that applicant for voter registration purposes.