Josh Stein: “North Carolina voters deserve transparency in their elections, not last-minute workarounds that could keep their vote…”

Today marks a step forward in creating opportunity for children and restoring stability for families in areas hit the hardest by these devastating storms.

I’ve got all kinds of respect for them and their willingness to do that because I know that it’s not the easiest thing to do in these inflamed times.

Today the State Board of Elections approved new ways for mail-in ballots to be rejected on technicalities, including changes that had been put on hold by state law after I joined a number of other North Carolinians in objecting to them.

It’s the best way to ensure that you really get locally driven solutions to problems, which creates a laboratory of democracy, laboratory of ideas, of innovation.