North Dakota Senate OKs bill to ensure physical polling places

BISMARCK — The North Dakota Senate on Friday, March 31, handed a invoice to make sure bodily polling locations, much like laws that failed in 2021, introduced within the wake of North Dakota’s all-mail June 2020 election.

Home Invoice

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, by Rep. Steve Vetter, R-Grand Forks, handed in a 39-5 vote and now goes to Gov. Doug Burgum. The state Home of Representatives in February handed the invoice unanimously.

The invoice states: “The governor might not difficulty an govt order that suspends or amends a provision in a statute, order, or rule referring to a state or native requirement relating to minimal variety of bodily polling locations.”

Burgum in 2020 signed an govt order waiving the requirement that counties present at the very least one bodily polling web site for the June 2020 election because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Home and Senate in 2021 had handed the earlier invoice, however the Senate reconsidered it and it failed by a single vote.

Home Invoice 1167 is amongst a flurry of election-related payments filed by supermajority North Dakota Republican lawmakers, persevering with a development from 2021. The Legislature that 12 months dealt with greater than 40 election-related payments within the wake of the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud.