The watchdog group Common Cause evaluated ten states that are key in this year's midterm election. The "Did We Fix That?" report shows North Carolina gets mixed reviews.
The report is based on the 19 recommendations from President Obama's election commission that were issued earlier this year after problems in the 2012 election.
North Carolina scored well in five of them, including poll worker recruitment and improvement to voting site access.
The rest were graded either mixed or unsatisfactory. For example, North Carolina received lower marks because it doesn't have online voter registration. Also, there's no legislation to provide bilingual poll workers. Allegra Chapman, who co-authored the report, says recent voting laws are making the problem worse.
"It's a disappointment,"says Chapman. "North Carolina used to have one of the most progressive sets of electoral reforms in the country, and with this recent legislation with the elimination of same-day registration, with cuts to early voting, we think that it makes it a lot harder, a lot less convenient for the voter."
The controversial new voting law shaved seven days off of early voting, and also bans counting votes that are cast in the wrong precinct. The progressive non-profit group Common Cause will monitor the midterm election in these battleground states with the aim of correcting any future issues before the 2016 Presidential election.
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