Who's affected by the latest voter registration challenge (and how you can help)
Last week, the State Board of Elections launched an ambitious effort to get 103,000 voters to add missing information to their registration record – a NC DMV (driver’s license) number or the last four digits of their Social Security number or a declaration that they have neither document.
The board says it will not purge a voter’s registration if they don’t provide the information, but it will require them to fill out extra paperwork and vote with a provisional ballot that may or may not count. That ambiguity and extra burden will cause many to just walk away without voting – and it’s a good reason to help people remove themselves from the board’s list.
Who are these voters and how can you help?
Briefly, the affected voters are disproportionately young, Black, and vote Democratic – although nearly half of them have not voted in the past 10 years. A large majority registered when they were in their teens or twenties and provided minimal information at the time – which is why they’re on the board’s list.
https://ncnewsline.com/2025/07/21/whos-affected-by-the-latest-voter-registration-challenge-and-how-you-can-help/