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Roy A. COOPER, III, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of North Carolina v. Philip E. BERGER, in His Official Capacity as President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate; and Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives
    No. 52PA17-2
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    August 21, 2017
    D. Martin Warf, Attorney at Law, Noah H. Huffstetler, III, Attorney at Law, Raleigh, Candace S. Friel, Attorney at Law, Winston-Salem, for Berger, Philip E.
    Jim W. Phillips, Jr., Attorney at Law, Greensboro, Eric M. David, Attorney at Law, Daniel F.E. Smith, Attorney at Law, for Cooper, Roy A. (III)
    Grayson Kelley, Chief Deputy
    Alexander McC. Peters, Special Deputy Attorney General, Alexander McC. Peters, Senior Deputy Attorney General, for State of N.C.
    John R. Wester, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, J. Dickson Phillips, III, Attorney at Law, Chapel Hill, Adam K. Doerr, Attorney at Law, Kevin Crandall, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, for Hunt, James B., Jr., et al.
    Andrew H. Erteschik, Attorney at Law, Raleigh, for Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, et al.
    Allison J. Riggs, Attorney at Law, Anita S. Earls, Attorney at Law, Emily E. Seawell, Attorney at Law, for County Board Members.
    ORDER
   The Court, on its own motion, orders the State to make a filing no later than 2:00 p.m. on Monday, 21 August 2017 containing the following information:

1) the identity of each county board of elections which currently lacks a quorum;
2) the extent, if any, to which any affected county board of elections would be unable to act even if the consent order which has been proposed by the parties is entered;
3) the nature and extent of any pending, unresolved complaints which affect the manner in which any election to be held on or before 12 September 2017 in any of those counties is to be conducted;
4) the date or dates upon which the ballots associated with any election affected by those complaints have to be made available for absentee or early voting purposes;
5) the date or dates upon which absentee or early voting must begin in any election affected by those complaints;
6) and any other relevant information that the State believes would be helpful to the Court.

The other parties are ordered to advise the Court of the extent, if any, to which they wish to supplement or comment upon any of the information provided by the State in response to this order no later than 5:00 p.m.

on Monday, 21 August 2017 and the date and time at which any such supplemental information or comments can be filed with the Court. In the event that the parties cannot, with reasonable effort, make the filings required by this order, they should notify the Court of the time and date upon which they reasonably believe that the required filing can be made.