Mealey's (July 13, 2022, 11:35 AM EDT) -- RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina federal judge on July 11 granted summary judgment to a disability rights organization in its suit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), asserting that North Carolina absentee ballot provisions violate the federal Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause by not permitting disabled absentee voters to choose their own assistant, finding that the challenged provisions of North Carolina law “conflict with federal law, and thus are preempted by the Voting Rights Act.”...