Does the amendment have a chance of passing?

In several meetings, leaders of the NCEIT appeared most hopeful about passing a citizens-only voting amendment to the state constitution.

“Phil Berger and Tim Moore have both said they favor moving that bill this session,” Jim Womack, the president of NCEIT, said in an April 16 meeting. “That’s the only bill that both of them have agreed that ought to move. So I’ve had very high hopes.”

Senate leader Phil Berger’s and House Speaker Tim Moore’s offices did not respond to requests for comment about whether they supported the legislation.

In the meeting, Womack added that he thought legislative leaders would want it to pass “simply because it’ll bring conservatives to the polls.”

Womack is also the chair of the Lee County GOP and ran unsuccessfully for chair of the state Republican Party earlier this year.

His group plans to hold a press conference Wednesday in support of the amendment.

Overcash said he had not spoken with anybody from the NCEIT about the amendment.

He sponsored a bill to send a citizens-only voting amendment to voters last year, but it never made it to a vote in the legislature.

In order to pass an amendment to the state constitution, three-fifths of lawmakers must first approve the proposal in each chamber of the General Assembly. Then, the amendment is placed on the ballot in the next election and decided on by voters.

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