163-165.4A. Punch-card ballots and lever machines.
(a) No ballot may be used in any referendum, primary, or other election as an official ballot if it requires the voter to punch out a hole with a stylus or other tool.
(b) No lever machine voting system may be used in any referendum, primary, or other election as a means of voting the official ballot. A "lever machine voting system" is a voting system on which the voter casts a vote by pressing a lever and the vote is mechanically recorded by the machine.
(c) In any counties that used punch-card ballots as official ballots or lever machines in the election of November 2000, and in any municipalities located in those counties, this section becomes effective January 1, 2006. It is the intent of the General Assembly that any county that uses county funds to replace voting equipment to satisfy this section shall be given priority in appropriations to counties for voting equipment. (2001-310, ss. 1, 3; 2003-226, s. 12; 2017-6, s. 3; 2018-146, s. 3.1(a), (b).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 163 - Elections and Election Laws
§ 163-165.1 - Scope and general rules.
§ 163-165.3 - Responsibilities for preparing official ballots.
§ 163-165.4 - Standards for official ballots.
§ 163-165.4A - Punch-card ballots and lever machines.
§ 163-165.4B - Butterfly ballots.
§ 163-165.4C - Prohibited voting systems.
§ 163-165.5 - Contents of official ballots.
§ 163-165.5A - Expired pursuant to Session Laws 2001-288, s3, effective January 1, 2012.
§ 163-165.5B - Ballots may be combined.
§ 163-165.6 - Arrangement of official ballots.
§ 163-165.7 - Voting systemspowers and duties of State Board.
§ 163-165.8 - Voting systemspowers and duties of board of county commissioners.
§ 163-165.9 - Voting systemspowers and duties of county board of elections.
§ 163-165.9A - Voting systemsrequirements for voting systems vendors; penalties.
§ 163-165.10 - Adequacy of voting system for each precinct.
§ 163-166.01 - Hours for voting.
§ 163-166.1 - Duties of county board of elections.
§ 163-166.2 - Arrangement of the voting enclosure.
§ 163-166.3 - Limited access to the voting enclosure.
§ 163-166.4 - Limitation on activity in the voting place and in a buffer zone around it.
§ 163-166.5 - Procedures at voting place before voting begins.
§ 163-166.6 - Designation of tasks.
§ 163-166.7 - Voting procedures.
§ 163-166.7A - Voter education and information.
§ 163-166.8 - Assistance to voters.
§ 163-166.9 - Curbside voting.
§ 163-166.10 - Procedures after the close of voting.
§ 163-166.11 - Provisional voting requirements.
§ 163-166.11A - Notation on provisional ballot.
§ 163-166.12 - Requirements for certain voters who register by mail.
§ 163-166.16 - Requirement for photo identification to vote in person.
§ 163-166.17 - Approval of student identification cards for voting identification.
§ 163-166.18 - Approval of employee identification cards for voting identification.