Yesterday a Wake County Superior Court judge sided with plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the 2014 general election early voting plan for Watauga County, according to a representative of the plaintiffs.
A group of ASU students and two active local Democrats affiliated with the Watauga Voting Rights Task Force filed the petition late last month in Wake County Superior Court and with the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings. It challenged the SBOE’s adoption on Aug. 29 of the local elections board’s one-stop early voting plan for the 2014 general election that includes one early voting site in Boone — at the Watauga County Administration Building — and none on the ASU campus.
Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ruled that the plan was unconstitutional and remanded the plan back to the SBOE with instructions to include a site at ASU.
Read the full article from the Watauga Democrat newspaper here.