North Carolina Covid Legal Information

We drew these resources principally from Justin Levitt's list of COVID-19 election cases, Standford-MIT Healthy Elections Project COVID-Related Election Litigation Tracker, and the National Center for State Legislatures' COVID-19 and 2020 Primary Elections page.

Litigation Tracker

Executive Actions

  • Emergency Executive Order

    Topics

    Primary Postponement

    Date Filed

    20/03/2020

    Description

    The North Carolina State Board of Elections rescheduled their congressional primary runoff election to June 23.

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Legislative Actions

  • NC HB 1169

    Topics

    Absentee Voting; Vote by Mail; Signature Requirements

    Date Filed

    12/06/2020

    Description

    Reduces the number of witness signatures required for absentee ballots from two to one and allows absentee ballot requests to be submitted by email or fax.

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