NCGOP Applauds Veto Overrides Enacting Common-Sense Election Changes Into Law

NCGOP Applauds Veto Overrides Enacting Common-Sense Election Changes Into Law

October 10, 2023

For Immediate Release

The North Carolina Republican Party applauds the N.C. General Assembly for successfully overriding Governor Roy Cooper's vetoes of common-sense legislation to increase confidence and integrity in our elections. These bills (Senate Bill 747, Senate Bill 749) becoming law, despite the objections of the governor, is a win for the People of North Carolina.

NCGOP has long fought to increase transparency and security in our elections by empowering citizen poll observers, banning the private special-interest financing of elections administration, and setting appropriate election day deadlines for absentee ballots. The enactment of Senate Bill 747 into law achieves these goals and serves to restore trust that our elections are free and fair.

Similarly, overriding Governor Cooper's veto of Senate Bill 749, No Partisan Advantage in Elections, by the N.C. General Assembly, further increases confidence that our elections will not be administered and adjudicated by hand-picked partisan boards whose allegiance to political party corrupts the fairness of elections administration in North Carolina. By establishing truly bipartisan boards of elections, and requiring strong majority votes to approve motions, North Carolinians can be assured that no one political party has an undue advantage when election disputes occur.

"North Carolina has reason to celebrate these common sense reforms, which will make the N.C. Board of Elections a non-partisan entity and add important election integrity safeguards," said NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley. "We applaud the N.C. General Assembly for their efforts to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in the Old North State."

These veto overrides serve to not only bolster faith in our elections, but also to remind us of just how hard Democrats have fought to handicap election integrity at the expense of North Carolina voters. Republicans remain committed and vigilant in restoring trust in the quintessentially American elections process.