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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA <br /> SESSION 2001 <br /> <br />SESSION LAW 2001-310 <br /> HOUSE BILL 34 <br /> <br />AN ACT TO BAN BUTTERFLY AND PUNCH-CARD BALLOTS. <br /> <br />The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: <br /> <br /> SECTION I. Article 13 of Chapter 163 of the General <br />Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read: <br />"~ 163-140.3. Punch-Card ballots. <br /> No ballot may be used in <br />any referendum, primary~ or other election as an official ballot <br />if it requires the voter to punch out a hole with a stylus or <br /> <br />other tool. <br /> (b) In any counties that used punch-card <br />ballots as official ballots in the election of November <br /> <br />2000, and in any municipalities located in those counties, this <br />section becomes effective January 1~ 2006. It is the intent of <br />the General Assembly that any county that uses county funds to <br />replace voting equipment to satisfy this section shall be given <br />priority in appropriations to counties for voting <br />equipment." <br /> SECTION 2. Article 13 of Chapter 163 of the <br />General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read: <br />"~ 163-140.4. Butterfly ballots. <br /> NO butterfly ballot may be used as an official <br />ballot i~ any referendumr primary, or other election. The term <br />'butterfly ballot' means a ballot having more than one column <br /> <br />listing ballot choices that share a common column for <br /> <br />designating those choices." <br /> SECTION 3. If Senate Bill 17, 2001 Regular <br />Session of the General Assembly, becomes law, then effective <br />January 1, 2002, G.S. 163-140.3, as enacted by this act, is <br />recodified as G.S. 163-165.4A, and G.S. 163-140.4, as enacted by <br />this act, is recodified as G.S. 163-t65.4B. <br /> SECTION 4. Section 1 of this act is effective <br />when it becomes law and applies to primaries, elections, and <br />referenda conducted on or after that date. Nothing in this act <br />shall obligate the General Assembly to appropriate funds to <br />implement this act. The remainder of this act is effective when <br />it becomes law. <br /> In the General Assembly read three times and ratified <br />this the 19th day of July, 2001. <br /> <br />s/ <br /> <br /> Beverly E. Perdue <br />President of the Senate <br /> <br />s/ <br /> <br /> James B. Black <br />Speaker of the House of <br /> <br />Representatives <br /> <br /> <br />