A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require that a person who has been convicted of a crime that excluded the person from the right to vote must have the intent to commit fraud to be guilty of felony voting.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 163A‑1389(5) reads as rewritten:
"§ 163A‑1389.  Certain acts declared felonies.
Any person who shall, in connection with any primary, general or special election held in this State, do any of the acts or things declared in this section to be unlawful, shall be guilty of a Class I felony. It shall be unlawful:
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(5)	For any person convicted of a crime which excludes the person from the right of suffrage, to vote with intent to commit a fraud at any primary or election without having been restored to the right of citizenship in due course and by the method provided by law.
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SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.