GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 460

SENATE BILL 806

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT VOTER REGISTRATION SHALL BE THE SOLE CRITERIA FOR ALLOCATING VOTING MACHINES AMONG PRECINCTS IN ANY COUNTY WITH FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND OR MORE POPULATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 14 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 163-166.  Allocation of voting systems.

In allocating to precincts voting systems as defined in G.S. 163-160.1, the sole criteria shall be voter registration in the precinct."

Sec. 2.  This act applies only to counties of 450,000 or more population according to the 1990 census.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective with respect to elections conducted on or after January 1, 1994.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of July, 1993.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives