Senate Bill would overhaul the existing election laws of the Tar Heel State adding new restrictions and deadlines and further empowering partisan poll watchers among other changes . The bill next heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper who slammed the legislation and other electionrelated measures that state Republicans have pushed . As governor Cooper could choose to veto the new elections bill . But state Republicans gained a supermajority in the legislature earlier this year when Democratic state Rep. Tricia Cotham switched parties just months after being elected to a deepblue Charlottearea district meaning GOP lawmakers can now override Coopers vetoes . In July Cooper vetoed three bills that affect LGBTQ youth but the state legislature voted Wednesday to override those vetoes along with three others . The legislation also would eliminate the requirement for early voters to sign an absentee request application . Republicans now also have a majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court raising the prospect they could prevail in any court fights over the new election overhaul measure . In addition to holding a vetoproof majority in the Legislature Republicans also have the prospect of winning in any legal battle over the election overhauled by the law . The new legislation would change the current sameday registration rules during the early voting period. The bill would also change the . early . voting by mail rules during . the early Voting Period. to use a retrievable ballot that can be discarded if the county board of elections . to be discarded to be . to include a retrieveable ballot which can be . between the early voters. The legislation. to be used by the . October 21st and November 21st . The . law. The . legislation. The law. to more reflect Election Day statutes to more . to more accurately reflect Election Week. The new .
North Carolina legislature sends election overhaul bill to governor’s desk . N.C. legislature
