NC network seeks to boost trust in elections with a statewide tour
TRUSTED ELECTIONS TOUR – A bipartisan group of individuals and organizations have come together to form the North Carolina Network for Fair, Safe, & Secure Elections, a grassroots project initiated by The Carter Center with a mission to create healthy dialogue and build consensus around election security and voting access in our state. The tour stops in Asheville on Sept 20th; click to reserve your seat @ AB Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium
A new group in North Carolina is planning a statewide tour to bring information about the nuts-and-bolts workings of elections to the public.
The North Carolina Network for Fair, Safe, and Secure Elections will bring a program featuring elections officials, lawyers, and information about election security to each of the state’s 14 congressional districts. The network is an initiative of the Carter Center, a nonpartisan, non-profit organization founded by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn.
Bob Orr, a former Republican state Supreme Court justice, and Jennifer Roberts, a former Democratic mayor from Charlotte, are leading the North Carolina network.
Wake Forest on Aug. 30 is the tour’s first stop.
North Carolina is one of four states, including Arizona, Georgia, and part of Florida, where the Carter Center is testing this approach to doing “a better job educating and promoting confidence in the system,” Orr said in an interview.
“We hope we generate a good bit of public interest in how the election system works in North Carolina,” he said. “We’ve seen people losing confidence in elections. This effort, which we bill as a bipartisan or cross-partisan effort, is to try and help strengthen support for and understanding of the election system.”
