NC Voter ID 2016

Daphne RaineyVoter ID Committee – Sheila Beaudry,

Jennie Deloach, Delcinia Turner

July 16, 2015

CCDP Executive Committee Meeting

National Voter Registration Act of

1993 (NVRA)– “Motor Voter Act”

Requires states to provide citizens with the opportunity to register to vote for federal elections by three important means:

1. At DMV while applying for or renewing driver's licenses

2. At application for Public Assistance (PA) programs, such as food stamps or welfare3. By mail-in registration and voter registration drives.

NVRA also requires the states to collect data regarding how many voter registration applications are generated via each of these means, and to report summaries of those data to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) every two years.

BY DOCDAWG – DAILY KOSTHU MAY 07, 2015 AT 05:59 AM PDT

Board of Elections data reveal voter registration irregularities under

NC Gov. Pat McCrory

• NC SBE uncovered systematic irregularities in voter registration efforts.

• Irregularities, potentially disenfranchise tens of thousands of poverty-level NC citizens.

• Under McCrory NC is the tip of the GOP's spear in efforts to suppress voting by demographic groups which typically do not lean Republican (blacks, Latinos, youth, and the economically disadvantaged).

• McCrory signed the nation's single most draconian voter suppression bill, The Voter Information Verification Act (VIVA).

• Legal challenges filed by NC NAACP, the ACLU, the League of Women Voters, and the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Oral arguments in NC-NAACP v. McCrory will begin on July 6th.

New Voter Registrations Down Under McCrory

Registrations Via Public Assistance Cut in Half Under

McCrory

Headlines - THU MAY 07, 2015 UPDATED: Board of Elections data reveal voter registration

irregularities under NC Gov. Pat McCrory

• Under McCrory Administration - North Carolina's voter registration rolls are missing some 40,000 or more poverty-level citizens (and still counting)…..

• Perspective – In 2014 election, Thom Tillis (R) beat incumbent Kay Hagan (D) for U.S. Senate seat by roughly the same number - just 45,608 votes.

• Upcoming oral arguments in NC-NAACP v. McCrory – Winston-Salem, NC July 6th concurrent protest with North Carolina NAACP president Rev. Dr. William J. Barber 

• UPDATE - Friday May 08, 2015:  Several voting rights legal action organizations banded together to notify North Carolina's Board of Elections that it is violating the NVRA - thus starting the 90-day clock leading to filing a suit against the state.

NC Voter Information Verification Act (S.L. 2013-381)

• Requires photo identification for in-person voting starting in 2016.

• State Board of Elections must adopt Rules to administer these new laws.

• The State Board of Elections

invites comment from interested parties on proposed rules.

• Comments:– Submit Written comments

Tuesday, 06/30/2015.

– Email Comments to rules@ncsbe.gov

• Hearing:– State Board of Elections Office,

Board Room 441 North Harrington Avenue, Raleigh, NC Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

• Chatham County BOE– Voter ID Seminar June 13, 2015

VOTER ID RULESWhat you need to know for 2016

Valid Forms of ID

•NC Driver’s License

•NC ID Card

•US Passport

•Military ID

•Veterans ID

•Tribal Enrollment Card

Exceptions to the Photo ID requirement of 2016?

For in-person voters, there are certain exceptions to the photo ID requirement.

•Age 70 and Older - expired ID accepted•Natural Disaster – victims of natural disaster w/in 60 days of voting•Religious Objection – those with religious objections to being photographed must file declaration•Persons Who Are Qualified to Vote Curbside – Curbside voters can show an ID, utility bill, bank statement, paycheck or other gov’t document•Voters who request and complete an absentee by-mail ballot

PRECINCT VOTER ID PROJECTMake Sure Those in Your Precinct Are Able to Vote

Precinct Level Action

• SBE compared voter registration against DMV records.

• List of Potential people without correct ID for voting

• Win –Win– Eligible precinct voters

identified and assisted– Potential new precinct

members– Potential new precinct

volunteers– Potential new precinct

leaders in training

Voter ID Committee:Delcinia Turner, Sheila Beaudry, Jennie Deloach

Overview

• What type of data• Suggested Approach

to Voter Contact• Data Collection

Specifics• Scripts• Timeline

• Voter ID Laws– 25% African

Americans– 20% Asian Americans– 19% Latino Americans– 18% Citizens Age 18-

24– 15% Citizens < 35k

Annual Income

Contact Information

• Delcinia TurnerChatham County Board of

Education

Board Member, District 3

dsturner1@windstream.net

Sheila Beaudry

Data Manager

sbbeaudry@embarqmail.com

Jennie Deloach

Jen_Girl@msn.com

• Daphne Rainey2nd Vice Chair, CCDP

raineyd4@gmail.com

Voter ID Project for Chatham

• Delcinia Turner– Call lists

• Sheila Beaudry– Call scripts and data

collection