Henderson County has been chosen for a signature matching pilot program following the March primary election.
The program is required by a new state law. The bipartisan State Board of Election selected 10 counties to participate in the program.
The selected counties will use signature verification software to compare signatures on mail-in absentee ballot applications and envelopes against voters' signatures on file.
This is just for experimental purposes. It will not impact primary ballot counts.
All counties, including the 10 pilot counties, will accept absentee by mail ballots from registered North Carolina voters who meet the current criteria of properly requesting a ballot, marking it, signing it, having it witnessed, and providing a copy of an acceptable photo ID or an ID exception form before returning it to the county board of elections,
The counties participating in the pilot program are: Bertie, Cherokee, Durham, Halifax, Henderson, Jones, Montgomery, Pamlico, Rowan and Wilkes.
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