“Missing voter registrations reported in North Carolina”

WaPo:

Reports of missing registrations in North Carolina are coming into the Election Protection hotline from voters who tried to register through the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

Allison Riggs, senior attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, said the reports are coming in from throughout the state, but for now it is hard to judge the exact number. “It could be thousands, but probably not tens of thousands,” she said.

After a federal court order on the first day of early voting, the state Board of Elections issued new paperwork to allow voters who tried to register through the DMV to use provisional ballots. Riggs said that should help protect the ballots — but not if voters are turned away or not offered the new forms.

“It’s seeming to us that some poll workers are not up to speed on that,” Riggs said. Some voters, she said, aren’t getting the new forms.

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