A group of North Carolina Republicans filed a bill in the state legislature to ban organizations from handing out voter registration forms at voter registration drives.
House Bill 127 would make it a misdemeanor for people or organizations to provide voter registration applications at the drives. It instead would mandate the State Board of Elections to create a sample voter registration form that may be distributed at voter registration drives. The legislation would also require groups looking to conduct a voter registration drive to “register with the county board of elections in the county in which the voter registration drive is to be held.”
The bill was introduced by Republican state Rep. Harry Warren this week, with Republican state Reps. Hugh Blackwell, Brian Echevarria, and Donnie Loftis listed as primary sponsors of the legislation.
Warren told WRAL that he…
