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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Please cascade this to neighborhood list-serves if you think it is useful.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Early Voting and Same Day Registration starts this week. Some exciting races (based on the number of signs and TV ads) are the Republican Primary for Senate, Democratic
Primary for US House 04, and School Board<span>.</span></span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">The full schedule of </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; font-style:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit">early
voting</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"> is at <a href="https://www.dcovotes.com/home/showpublisheddocument/36244/637807804159370000" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview">https://www.dcovotes.com/home/showpublisheddocument/36244/637807804159370000</a>.
T</span><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:inherit; font-size:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; font-weight:inherit">he polls are open from 8 AM to 7:30PM on weekdays and some
hours on weekends, and there are 8 locations (Main, North, South and East Libraries, </font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:inherit; font-size:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; font-weight:inherit">NCCU,
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The election folks are excited about "<b>real-time mapping tool</b>" that shows the wait time at each site (</span><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, NotoColorEmoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Android Emoji, EmojiSymbols" style="color:inherit; font-size:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; font-weight:inherit"><a href="https://durhamnc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3ba5733d5de645debd6e6089e92c7f32" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview_1">https://durhamnc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3ba5733d5de645debd6e6089e92c7f32</a>) so
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general, voting on Monday to Wednesday and later in the day are good times to avoid crowds.</font><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">For some sites, the bottleneck is how many people can be in the act of voting at the same time although this will be less of a problem this year because there is
less social distancing among booths. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Get your
<b>sample ballot</b> by looking yourself up at</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> (you
can carry in your list of choices on your phone). I generally advocate looking yourself up once a year or so just to make sure your record is still accurate.</span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">How long your ballot is will depend which party ballot you have. </div>
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<b>School Board </b>is final; there are no run-offs or second rounds. Everyone except 17-year-olds can vote for this race (<b>17-year-olds
</b>who will be 18 on or before November 8 have their own version of the ballot; they get to vote in the primary part of the ballot, since it's not fair to show up in November with no-one you want to vote for). </span></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">I think write-in only happens in the School Board races -- you don't get to write in primary candidates.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">An office only appears on the primary part of the ballot if there are 2 or more candidates from the party represented on the ballot. </span></li></ul>
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You obviously need ID if you are registering; p<span style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">retty
much anything "official" that connects your name to your current address (on paper on or your phone) will work. Otherwise, few people will need to show ID </span> (the exception is a few cases when something didn't match up on registrations sent in -- another
reason to look yourself up in the voter rolls since<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><a href="https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/</a> <span style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">should
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</span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Ballots by Mail</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">, the information is at </span><a href="http://www.dcovotes.com/voters/voting/absentee-voting" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk265877" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">http://www.dcovotes.com/voters/voting/absentee-voting</a><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> </font><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">(this
has been available for the last month). To return the ballot, either mail it or make sure it is being carried in by you or a "near relative" (there is an official list of what counts as "near"). You can track your ballot at: <a href="https://northcarolina.ballottrax.net/voter/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk537693">https://northcarolina.ballottrax.net/voter/</a></font><br>
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