NC Voting Law Prevents 400 Primary Votes From Being Counted

  North Carolina's new voting law prevented hundreds of people from having their ballots counted during the May 2014 primary.

An election reform group says ballots from 400 voters that were rejected in May 2014 would have been accepted during the 2012 elections. Democracy North Carolina held a news conference Wednesday to remind people about these voting restrictions and to urge people to register to vote before the Oct. 10 deadline for the November 2014 General Election.  

Group executive director Bob Hall says the rejected ballots are primarily because people couldn't register during early voting or they voted in the wrong precinct. He also says a disproportionate number of the voters were black or Democratic.  

Three lawsuits want these restrictions blocked for the November election. A court hearing is slated for later this month.