From the Washington Post, North Carolina Republicans reformed another antiquated election law that required observers to be residents of the precinct they were observing; not allowing the political parties to use additional volunteers from different areas of the county to engage in the important practice of observing the polls on election day.  Another reform by Republicans only after decades of nonsense restrictions that Democrats enacted to keep Republicans away from certain precincts.

There are going to be a lot more poll-watchers in North Carolina next election.
Under earlier laws, Election Day poll monitors had to be residents of
the precincts they were observing. Section 11.1 of the bill allows each
party to appoint an additional 10 poll watchers who live in the same
county as the precinct they’re observing. That will help Democrats send
new monitors from Charlotte into heavily Republican rural areas of
Mecklenburg County, say, or Republicans to send monitors from other
precincts around Raleigh, but still in Wake County, to heavily
Democratic black precincts downtown.