RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — The legislature has filed a constitutional amendment that would change North Carolina’s voter ID law.
SB921 was filed on Monday, entitled “Const. Am./Require Photo ID For All Voters.”
SB921 would “place a proposed amendment to the North Carolina Constitution revising the language regarding the requirement to present photo identification prior to voting on the November 3, 2026, ballot.”
The bill would put it to voters to choose whether or not photo ID would be required for all types of voting, not just in-person voting.
The bill would submit to the voters the question of whether to amend the North Carolina Constitution to require photo identification for all voters, regardless of method of voting. The ballot question would be considered at the statewide general election to be held on November 3, 2026, and the ballot question would read:
‘Constitutional amendment to require all voters, not just those presenting to vote in person, to present photo identification before voting.’
The law as it stands right now “requires a voter casting an absentee ballot to submit a copy of their photo identification, or an affidavit of an exception, with the returned application and voted ballot.”
It is not stated within the proposed amendment what this would change, specifically, or how voters not voting in person would submit their photo ID.
The amendment would go into effect if a majority of North Carolina voters voted yes.
Source: Fox 8 News Channel