Michael Hewlett for the Winston-Salem Journal:
Attorneys for the N.C. NAACP have raised questions about how much effort state elections officials have put into publicizing the change and training county election officials. State attorneys argue that state election officials have updated their websites, conducted training and distributed information to educate voters.
In court papers filed in December, attorneys for the N.C. NAACP cited a deposition from Kim Strach, the state’s elections director, in which she said the “reasonable impediment” declaration should be interpreted broadly and that election officials should “err on the side of viewing declarations in the light most favorable to the voter.”
State attorneys have refused to include Strach’s points in a written agreement or “commit to publicizing Ms. Strach’s interpretation of the Reasonable Impediment Declaration in an official memorandum to county board of elections or poll workers.”