NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 831

SENATE BILL 6

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 20, CHAPTER 163, OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE ASSISTANCE TO BLIND VOTERS IN PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Article 20, Chapter 163, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as contained in Replacement Volume 3D, 1964, is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately following § 163-174, to be designated as § 163-174.1, and to read as follows:

"§ 163-174.1. Assistance to Blind Voters in Primary and General Elections. Any qualified voter entitled to vote in any primary or general election but who by reason of blindess is unable to mark his ballot, may, upon statement to the registrar of his incapacity, and upon his request, be assisted in marking his ballot by a near relative (husband, or wife, parent or child, grandparent or grandchild) or by any other qualified voter selected by him, and such person shall be admitted into the booth with such voter.

This Act shall apply only to Guilford and Mecklenburg Counties."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed,

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1965.