[Durham INC] Early voting starts Thursday

[Pat]

This year we have just 10 days of one-stop, no-excuse, get-out-there-now voting, from Thursday, April 24, to Saturday, May 3.  The locations are the Board of Election offices downtown, North Regional Library, and South Regional Library.  Times are at http://dconc.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=9041 (basically 10ish to 6ish most days, but the library locations open when the libraries open at 2PM on Fridays, Sunday is 2-6, and the last day only has voting until 1PM.)
This is a combined general election for school board, partisan primaries for offices such as US Senate and sheriff, and non-partisan primaries for judges.  If your party hasn't recruited someone to run for, say Chief Ambassador of Entertainment (assuming CAE, a position I just made up for illustration purposes, is a partisan office), or has only one person who has filed to run for that office, you will not see that office on your ballot.

A couple notes:To find out whether (and how) you are registered and see your sample ballot, go to https://www.ncsbe.gov/webapps/voter_search/and enter your name. They are being really serious about no cell phones or other electronic devices in the voting places.  If you need a list of candidates you want to vote for, make a paper copy to bring into the voting booth with you.The requirement to have a picture ID doesn't start until 2016, but in an effort to make sure everyone has an ID by 2016, you will be asked whether you have one.  The idea is to get contact information for people who want to vote and don't have ID, so we can work with them to get them some form of approved ID.  More about ID at http://www.ncsbe.gov/ncsbe/Voter-IdYou can no longer register at early voting, but you can update your information, if you have moved within the county or gotten married, for example.  Unfortunately, you cannot change your party at early voting.If your name on the voting rolls doesn't match your name on your driver's license or social security records, going to early voting is a good chance to get this fixed just in case someone decides we need to do some massive cleaning up of the rolls.  Let the person at the computer know right away that you will need to update something; once you get further into the process of getting your ballot, making changes gets more complicated for the person at the computer. 
More information:  http://dconc.gov/index.aspx?page=97
Regards, pat
 		 	   		  


 		 	   		  

 		 	   		  
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