AN ACT to clarify language under the election laws regarding voting data maintained by precinct.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 163‑132.5G(a) reads as rewritten:

(a)      Each county board of elections shall maintain voting data by voting precinct so that official precinct returns for each item on the ballot shall include the votes cast by all residents of that voting precinct who voted, regardless of where the voter voted. The county board shall not be required to report returns by voting precinct for voters who voted other than at the voting precinct associated with that voter's voter registration until 30 days after the election. In reporting returns, the county board shall not compromise the secrecy of an individual's ballot. In reporting returns, the county board shall report, by precinct for each item on the ballot, the number of voters who did not select a choice for that item on the ballot and the number of voters who selected more choices than available for that item on the ballot.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.