On Wednesday evening, a vote on the measure is scheduled to take place in the North Carolina House of Representatives, which is controlled by the Republican Party.
On Tuesday, Republican state legislators in North Carolina resumed debating a sweeping voting measure that would, among other things, reduce the time period in which absentee votes must be submitted in order for them to be tallied, prohibit the use of private funding for election administration, and modify the regulations governing the poll observers that political parties choose. If passed, the measure would take effect in the 2020 presidential election in North Carolina.
The House Elections Committee voted to approve an updated version of a bill that was passed with bipartisan support by the Senate back in June. Because of the ongoing battle over the state budget, legislators had avoided the North Carolina capital city of Raleigh for many weeks. This week, the legislative body will gather together once again to examine topics that are not related to the budget.
It is expected that the newly amended measure will be put to a vote in the House by the evening of Wednesday. On Tuesday, many senior Republicans in the Senate claimed that chamber leaders had been kept aware of revisions and that the House version, barring major alterations, may receive final legislative approval. These statements came in response to a question about whether or not the Senate had been kept informed of changes.
