The state Senate is advancing a bill to throw out thousands of mail ballots. Act now to stop them! »
John,
Last year, you and a record number of our fellow Americans turned out to vote, with an unprecedented number voting by mail. Apparently that’s a problem for our anti-environment state legislators.
They’re moving fast to put up more barriers to voting by mail, setting the deadline to request ballots a week earlier and requiring ballots be received at local boards of elections by 5 p.m. on Election Day.
Why? To protect their polluter pals.
This bill is in committee and could be brought to a vote at any moment, so we have to act fast.
For years, state law has allowed mail ballots to arrive up to three days after Election Day as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
That’s common sense — once a ballot is out of a voter’s hands, it’s out of his or her control. We all know how slow the mail is moving lately. The sponsors of this bill do too, but they don’t care.
Why would you make this move unless you wanted to restrict the vote? Why should someone voting in-person get to request a ballot as late as 7:30 p.m. on Election Day but someone voting by mail has to do so two weeks in advance? Why should a mail ballot have to arrive by 5 p.m. that day while an in-person ballot can arrive two and a half hours or more later?
We know the answers to these questions. It makes no sense unless they’re trying to infringe on our freedom to vote, and we have to stop them now, John!
Thanks for taking action,
Carrie Clark, Executive Director
NC League of Conservation Voters
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