NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 732
HOUSE BILL 395

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 163-187.4 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE FORSYTH COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO USE PAPER BALLOTS FOR WRITE-IN VOTES WHERE VOTING MACHINES ARE USED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 163-187.4 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Provided, that in general elections in Forsyth County, the County Board of Elections may, in its discretion, provide for the use of paper ballots for write-in votes for any one or more offices in those precincts where voting machines are used, in lieu of providing receptacles or devices for write-in votes for all offices on the voting machines. A write-in ballot is to be furnished to any voter who indicates that he wishes to make a write-in vote for an office that has been designated and set aside by the County Board of Elections for ballot write-in votes rather than machine write-in votes. The voting procedures necessary to carry out the purpose and intent of this Act are to be specified by the County Board of Elections."
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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 28th day of May, 1965.