RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers are weighing options to reduce wait times at Department of Motor Vehicles locations , including a proposal to separate the DMV from the Department of Transportation — a partnership the state auditor calls "dysfunctional."

State Auditor Dave Boliek released a report in August finding long waits are becoming more common, with 13.8% of visits lasting over two and a half hours — a nearly 80% increase since 2019.

Asata Jackson experienced the problem firsthand when she spent her 16th birthday at a DMV location in Huntersville.

"I was there for probably, like six hours, something like that," Jackson said. "It was, like, packed. The line was all the way past the buildings and stuff, and I was there right when it opened."

State lawmakers addressed this

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