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Virginia Wasserberg, registered in Pasquotank County, is joined by the North Carolina Republican Party and the Republican National Committee on the complaint. They say the“that disregards election laws requiring absentee ballot security envelopes to be sealed in order for the ballot to count,” a release says.
“State law is clear in this matter and it is unfortunate that Director Bell is acting beyond her authority,” state party Chairman Jason Simmons said of Elections Board Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell. “We will continue to enforce integrity in the elections process and adherence to statutory requirements.”
The litigation says Numbered Memo 2021-03, an instruction from Bell, “issued guidance” and “undermines the protections afforded by the General Assembly’s carefully drafted absentee-voting statutes.” Four statute references are named that require “an absentee ballot must be received by the proper county board of elections in a sealed envelope for the ballot to be counted.”
Plaintiffs say the memo “advises county boards of elections that an absentee ballot may be counted even if it is not submitted in a sealed container-return envelope.”Defendants are the board as a whole, each member in their board capacity, and Bell. The board includes Democrats Alan Hirsch, its chairman, Jeff Carmon and Siobhan Millen; and Republicans Stacy Eggers and Kevin Lewis.
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