A friend has been researching Oregon's Vote-by-Mail program. She has been working on getting the state legislature to consider vote-by-mail. In her searching she found that Cherie Poucher of Wake County has been working on this since some time after HAVA was passed.
They currently have a bill in the NC Senate
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=s33 and one in the NC House
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H30v0.html to start a pilot program in cities over 90,000. Cary, NC is getting prepared to run a vote-by-mail program for a referendum in May. These bills need to be passed right away so that the preparations can be done. These bills state that this program can only be used in May 2005. If it is not passed in time it will die and all of the work done will have to be started again. The bill is sponsored by both Dems and Reps. We need NC residents to call their representatives and let them know they support these bills. Below are links to find your representative.
NC House
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=House
NC Senate
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=Senate
If you contact someone please just click yes on the poll so we can get some idea of how many people here responded
Thank You