Claiming to have already trained more than 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.”
