Common Cause NC's Brooks Fuller on North Carolina's New Absentee Envelope Rule

Welcome back to the Carolina Cabinet, Cumberland County's smartest hour of talk radio. Peter Pappas sits down with Brooks Fuller, policy director at Common Cause North Carolina, about the State Board of Elections' September rule on absentee ballots: if the inner envelope comes back unsealed, the ballot is spoiled and the voter has to vote a new one or go in person. A federal judge declined to block it, and Common Cause is one of the groups that says it goes too far. Peter presses him on the judge's reasoning that the rule is printed on the ballot materials and that opponents waited too long to sue. Fuller explains how county boards reach voters whose ballots are spoiled, why he says the rule is a solution in search of a problem, what it means for military and overseas voters in a community like ours, the Election Day 7:30 p.m. return deadline and the five-business-day cure period, and what to do if an absentee ballot is still sitting on your kitchen table. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. More at thecarolinacabinet.com.