Claiming to have already trained over 1,000 people to volunteer to help run this November’s elections, conservative activists in North Carolina are opposing new rules that would more strictly regulate those volunteers’ behavior at polling places.
They won a key victory Thursday — with support from a controversial lawyer heavily involved in the unsuccessful plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election — when a GOP-dominated board voted to block the proposed rules from going into place.
The rules came from the N.C. State Board of Elections and contained many changes governing the behavior of election workers as well as political-party volunteers at polling places. Most were aimed at cutting down on harassment and aggressive political behavior at voting sites — as well as banning poll workers from providing “inaccurate information about the administration of the election.”
Republicans strongly opposed the rules, saying they were overly broad and vague. One such critic is Cleta Mitchell, a 2020 election lawyer for former President Donald Trump who recently moved to Moore County, southwest of Raleigh.
Shortly after she asked the N.C. Rules Review Commission on Thursday to block the proposed rules, the commission voted to do just that, ruling that the elections board lacked the authority to make the changes it wanted.
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