Voter registration repairs continue with mailings to more than 82,000

(The Center Square) – More than 82,000 registered voters in North Carolina will soon get a letter advising of state law compliance issues, and how to resolve it.

Sam Hayes, first-year executive director of the State Board of Elections, on Monday said more than 20,000 voters have already fixed issues since the July launch of the Registration Repair Project. The issues are the absence of either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number.

State and federal law require one or the other.

State board forms used previously and the voters with missing information were central to the prolonged decision going through the North Carolina state courts, including the Wake County Superior Court and the state Court of Appeals, before being ultimately decided by a federal judge six months after Election Day. The Registration Repair Project is the solution for three pending lawsuits and a settlement adopted by the state board.

The Registration Repair Project has a website allowing voters to check to see if that state has the proper identifying information on them. It also provides three options for how voters can supply the required information.

In future elections, voters who still have not provided the missing information, will have to cast provisional ballots and provide the required identification numbers when they vote, the state said.

The recipients of letters will have options to bring registrations into compliance either in person, by mail or through an online portal.

“It’s quick. It’s easy. It’s free,” Hayes said. “We strongly encourage all voters on the Registration Repair list to take action now and avoid any issues the next time they show up to vote.”

The 2025 election cycle brings state voters to the polls in what is known as a municipal cycle. The midterms are in 2026. Another round of municipals is in 2027 and 2028 will be a presidential year cycle.