North Carolina lawmakers vote to make postelection challenges easier

There are no new alerts at this time The Republican-led North Carolina House approved a bill Tuesday that would make it easier for residents to challenge other people’s votes and county boards to toss those ballots, alarming critics who say the law could cause postelection chaos. The bill, which the Senate passed last week, would allow county residents to challenge early voters’ ballots up to three business days after an election. County election boards could then vote to invalidate those votes with a simple majority of members. Previously, challenges had to be filed by Election Day, before anyone knew how close a race was and how many votes would need to be thrown out to change the outcome. County election boards, which comprise both Republicans and Democrats, then had to unanimously agree to throw out a ballot.

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