SDR Failures Reported to Executive Director
Feb 27, 2020 (Raleigh) — SBOE Legal Counsel, Katelyn Love, yesterday, confirmed that our latest study, proving numerous system failures with the Same-Day Registration voting program, was forwarded to SBOE Executive Director, Brinson Bell and that the agency would “fully reviews and respond to it” after the March 3 primary is concluded.
Counselor Love also advised VIP of a heretofore unrecognized Numbered Memo 2016-15 put forth by the agency, allowing cell phone screenshots of certain documents, in lieu of paper copies, which prompted a correction to Slide 25 of the (linked) research report.
“A student . . . may prove his residency by presenting, in either hardcopy or electronic format, any document originating with the educational institution and containing the student’s name and on-campus housing address or facility name (e.g.,“Jones Hall”).
Partial quote from SBOE Numbered Memo 2016-15
“The security failures of the SDR law are even worse when it facilitates college students bending our laws about their domicile,” said Jay DeLancy, founder of the Voter Integrity Project. “No student is staying long-term in a college dorm but SDR helps them vote from that address when they should be voting absentee from their home-of-record.”
According to records obtained by former NC House Representative, Jonathan Jordan, of the 5,684 Appalachian State University students voted by using their dorm room address, 5,019 voted Democrat and only 665 voted Republican.
“My district represented two entire counties in Western North Carolina,” said Jordan. “I’m not crying about sour grapes, but except for those temporary-resident [App State] voters, my district reelected me by 2,738 votes.”
Many of the students were mobilized to vote using the Same-Day Registration rules after the Watauga County Board of Elections successfully fought for an early voting site on the campus. The Board member who pushed the issue, Dr. Stella Anderson, was then elevated to the State Board of Elections.
“She did so well at herding college students to the polls, that the Democrats want to carry that program statewide,” said DeLancy. “Now every college town in the state can expect thousands of new Democrat voters in their local races.”
Last year, New Hampshire law clarified that “domicile” for purposes of in-state tuition carries the same meaning as “domicile” for the purposes of voting.