On July 29, Gary Bartlett, Executive Director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said he will ask the state legislature to change the law on which parties are listed on the state income tax form. Current law says state income taxpayers can use their tax form to send a small donation to any qualified party that has registration of at least 1% of the statewide total. The proposed change would delete the 1% registration requirement, so that if the change were made, any qualified party would be listed.

Currently, among the 13 states that list qualified parties on their tax forms, North Carolina and Ohio are the only states that don’t list all the qualified parties. Ohio only lists parties that polled 20% of the vote in the last election. Also Ohio doesn’t give the taxpayer the choice of which party to help, but splits the money equally between the Democrats and Republicans.