Plain English Summary
This comprehensive bill proposes multiple democratic reforms in North Carolina, including establishing a nonpartisan redistricting commission, converting judicial elections to nonpartisan processes, extending cooling-off periods for legislators-turned-lobbyists, implementing online and automatic voter registration, requiring live-streaming of legislative meetings, reducing absentee ballot witness requirements, ensuring voting places on college campuses, limiting voter roll purges, and reestablishing public campaign financing for judicial candidates with various campaign finance transparency requirements.
Arguments in Favor
Supporters argue these reforms strengthen democracy by reducing partisan gerrymandering, improving voting access through online and automatic registration, increasing transparency in campaign spending and legislative proceedings, limiting the influence of special interests and Super PACs, and restoring voting rights to people who completed their sentences. They contend that nonpartisan redistricting and judicial elections reduce political manipulation, public financing reduces dependence on wealthy donors, and easier voter registration increases participation.
Arguments Against
Opponents contend that nonpartisan redistricting commissions may be complex to implement and could face legal challenges, automatic voter registration raises election security and accuracy concerns, extensive campaign finance restrictions and disclosure requirements may burden candidates and organizations, live-streaming of all legislative sessions could discourage candid deliberations, and restoring voting rights to those with felony convictions raises public safety concerns. Some argue these measures increase government costs and administrative burden on election officials.
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Sponsors
Primary Sponsor
Representative · District 56
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Representative · District 23
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Representative · District 40
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Representative · District 32
Cosponsors (30)
Representative · District 8
Representative · District 115
Representative · District 48
Representative · District 21
Representative · District 99
Representative · District 45
Representative · District 102
Representative · District 49
Representative · District 112
Representative · District 71
Representative · District 41
Representative · District 27
Representative · District 50
Representative · District 30
Representative · District 61
Representative · District 114
Representative · District 29
Representative · District 18
Representative · District 92
Representative · District 66
Representative · District 36
Representative · District 98
Representative · District 88
Representative · District 31
Representative · District 54
Representative · District 57
Representative · District 33
Representative · District 101
Representative · District 34
Representative · District 107