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PINK HILL - A recent legislative change has validated the mixed beverage referendum held in Pink Hill during the November 2022 election. Initially declared invalid due to the town not meeting the required 300 registered voters, the town had only 281, the will of the people is now upheld. Senate Bill 527, signed by Governor Roy Cooper on Monday, lowers the requirement to 200 registered voters and retroactively took effect on November 1, 2022.
In Pink Hill, a vote may not always count. Like 56% of the voters in North Carolina who wanted voter ID in 2018, the majority of Pink Hill voters who said yes to the Mixed Beverage Referendum had their power taken away.
The town of Pink Hill held a Mixed Beverage Referendum during the November 2022 election, which passed with 65 votes for and 42 against. During Tuesday’s Pink Hill Commissioners meeting, Mayor Yvonne Deatherage announced the entire Mixed Beverage Referendum vote was invalid because Pink Hill had not met the requirements to hold the vote.
In an email letter obtained by Neuse News to Mayor Deatherage from North Carolina ABC Commission Assistant General Counsel Renee C. Metz, she stated, “it appears the Mixed Beverages election held in November 2022 was not authorized by statute.”
The citizens of Pink Hill will be voting on a Mixed Beverage Referendum to decide whether or not to permit the sale of mixed beverages in hotels, restaurants, private clubs, community theatres, and convention centers and the ‘on-premises’ and ‘off-premises’ sale of malt beverages and unfortified wine in qualified establishments. This referendum can only be voted on by registered voters of Pink Hill on Election Day, November 8, 2022.
Voters that use early voting, or by-mail ballot, will have the opportunity to go to their precinct on Election Day, November 8th, to receive the ballot that contains the Mixed Beverage vote.
