Election integrity leaders are calling on North Carolina’s legislative leadership to pass a constitutional amendment proposal increasing protections against alien voting before adjourning as soon as next week.
“North Carolinians want consistency, transparency, reliability, and accuracy in election administration,” Jim Womack, president of the North Carolina Election Integrity Team, told The Federalist.
Introduced last year and carried over into the 2024 legislative session, SB 630 seeks to change language in the North Carolina State Constitution to specify that “only” U.S. citizens who are 18 years old and meet existing eligibility requirements may vote in elections. A companion bill (HB 1074) was introduced in the House last month.
Constitutional amendment proposals require support from three-fifths of House and Senate legislators before they can be sent to voters for approval, according to the Tarheel State’s founding document.
An amended version of SB 630 passed by the Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee on Thursday added two additional proposals to the bill, which would require voter ID for all forms of voting and cap the state income tax at 5 percent. The former provision would strengthen existing state constitutional requirements mandating electors present ID when voting in person by expanding that requirement to include mail-in voting. Laws requiring voter ID in North Carolina elections were passed in 2018 and 2019 and took effect last year following years-long court challenges.
SB 630 must now pass the Rules and Operations of the Senate Committee before going to the full floor for a
