House GOP takes different tack in NC absentee deadline bill
GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press
May 5, 2021
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Some North Carolina Republicans are taking a different tack on legislative efforts to move up mail-in absentee balloting deadlines by also giving citizens more time to vote on the front end. But Democrats say the idea still treats voters unequally.
The House elections committee voted along party lines on Wednesday for a GOP measure that requires traditional absentee ballots to be received by county officials by Election Day in order to be counted. Like a similar bill in the Senate, it would eliminate the current three-day grace period in state law for county boards to receive ballot envelopes in the mail that are postmarked by the date of the election. Against the wishes of Republican legislators, that period was extended to nine days for last November s election following a lawsuit settlement between the State Bo
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Catherine and Sam Harding view the main crib scene, with themselves as Mary and Joseph. Photograph: Ash Mills
For the Mary and Joseph of the Chichester Nativity, it has been less “no room at the inn” and more “no wedding in a pandemic”. Baby Jesus, meanwhile, far from having visitors from nearby fields and faraway kingdoms, hasn’t even been able to meet his aunt, his uncle or his great-grandparents. One of the shepherds is up to her eyes running the local food bank – and the winged angel looking down from above is the local hospital’s head of nursing.