S722 - Revise Local Government Redistricting/Census. (SL 2021-56)

Overview: S.L. 2021-56 impacts municipalities where an election for municipal officers is scheduled for 2021 and where less than the entire jurisdiction is eligible to vote for one or more municipal candidates on the 2021 ballot in the following ways:

• Delays the municipal elections scheduled for 2021 in those affected municipalities to 2022, with an option for the at-large elections in those districts to be in 2021.
• Requires those affected municipalities to evaluate and revise electoral districts in accordance with state and federal law following the release of federal decennial census data by November 17, 2021, or December 17, 2021, if the municipality is unable to meet the November 17, 2021 deadline.
• Allows individuals to register to vote between the date of the first primary and any second primary, and vote in that second primary, for 2022 only.
• Moves the City of Raleigh municipal elections to even-numbered years, and changes the method of election to non-partisan plurality.
• Delays the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education and the Lexington City Board of Education regular 2021 elections to 2022.
• Provides for boards of county commissioners to be able to adopt and implement revised districts for the 2022 election.

This act became effective June 28, 2021, and applies only to certain 2021 municipal elections.