WRAL television in Raleigh reports that anyone planning to cast an early ballot in North Carolina’s upcoming primary needs to schedule carefully.
As part of a sweeping elections law that lawmakers passed last year, early voting has been shortened from 17 to 10 days. For the May 6 primary, early voting runs from April 24 through May 3.
Republican lawmakers who backed the provision say there’s still plenty of time for everyone who wants to vote to cast their ballots, but critics say the move is just an attempt to make it harder to vote.
In the 2012 general election, 57 percent of the votes cast in North Carolina were on early ballots, including 20 percent cast during the first week of the early voting period that no longer will be provided
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