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North Carolina

34 • A community engagement team working with community-based organizations, social service agencies, health systems, independent providers and more to create a statewide coordinated care network.

During its first quarter implementation (January -March 2019) NCCARE360 has demonstrated its ability to quickly connect people with resources, even across county lines, and is rolling out across the state to all 100 counties in the upcoming months. NCCARE360 will be an important tool to ensure that all North Carolinians – including TANF recipients – benefit from this innovate referral service to quickly connect people with meeting housing and other basic needs.

VOTER REGISTRATION

The purpose of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) is to make more opportunities available for people to vote. The NVRA requires individuals, who are U.S. citizens and at least 16 years of age, be offered the opportunity to register to vote or update a voter registration record at application, recertification or when reporting a change to their address.

The local county departments of social services/agencies must ensure voter registration forms are available to individuals during their visits. The voter registration questions are in the Work First Application Workbook (DSS-8228), Intelligent Evidence Gathering (IEG) and the one-page application in North Carolina’s Families Accessing Services through Technology (NC FAST).

These individuals must be given a voter registration application form during their visit or mailed a form if the contact was by telephone or email. If the individual asks for assistance in completing the voter registration form, the caseworker or another designated agency staff must help. Staff are required to provide the same level of assistance in completion of voter registration forms as offered in the completion of other agency/program forms. The agency must coordinate with their local Board of Elections office to ensure the agency maintains sufficient North Carolina voter registration materials to comply with the NVRA.

Agency staff do not determine eligibility of any individual’s right to register to vote. The county Board of Elections office makes that determination. Inform the individual that the Board of Elections processes voters registration applications. Applicant and recipient questions concerning voter registration must be directed to the local Board of Elections office.

Each applicant or recipient must be informed that registering to vote or declining to register to vote will not affect their eligibility for services or benefits. No information relating to a declination to register vote may be used for purposes other than voter registration.

All completed voter registration applications must be submitted to the NC State Board of Elections no later than five business days after accepting the voter registration application. There must be interagency coordination to ensure the appropriate information is submitted to the NC State Board of Elections. This information includes the number of voter registration forms submitted and the number of remote transactions,