[Durham INC] Please vote tomorrow and update on early voting

[Pat Carstensen]

Please cascade this to neighborhood list-serves if you think it is useful.

About 40,000 (17.7% of those registered) people used early voting.  To see cool graphs on who is voting, when and where: https://www.dconc.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=30328


If you missed early voting and aren't sure about your polling place tomorrow, the polls are open from 6:30 AM to 7:30PM on Tuesday.  To find your polling place, you can

  *   put an address in here: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/PPLkup/ or
  *   look yourself up here: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/
  *   The precinct location is shifted for Precincts 16, 19, 53-2 and 30-2: http://www.dcovotes.com/voters/voting/polling-locations


We have gone back to having all computers serving anybody, so go to the first open "check in" station.


If you need to update your registration within Durham County, you can still do it when you vote on Tuesday.  You should go to the precinct for the address at which you resided on February 2nd of this year and look for the "check in" station that is marked "Transfer Station."


You can't change your party tomorrow.  If you are "unaffiliated," you may get a Democratic, Libertarian, Republican or Unaffiliated ballot (the Unaffiliated ballot has only the school board races).  You can do a provisional ballot if you don't want to use the ballot for the party you are registered in.


Some registrations are marked "inactive" because they sent you mail and it wasn't delivered.  This happens, for example, to folks who have old mailing addresses in their records.  It is no big deal.  Just tell the nice person at the computer what your current address is.


Most folks won't need to show ID; the exception is a few newly registered in Durham and for some reason something messed up with the registration form you sent in.  Pretty much anything that connects your name to your current address will work.  If you look yourself up at https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/, it should warn you if you need an ID.

For some sites, the bottleneck is how many people can be in the act of voting at the same time.  Get your sample ballot by looking yourself up at https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/ (you can carry in your list of choices on your phone).

Some places to look for information on the candidates:

  *   NC House 20: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article239407928.html, https://abc11.com/5967960/
  *   State-wide races: https://www.accessthevotenc.org/2020primary/ (it is from.an organization that works on disability rights so the questions don't cover a lot of areas, but is the only non-partisan site I could find).  For governor, Lt. governor, and superintendent of public instruction: https://www.chathamnewsrecord.com/stories/what-you-need-to-know-about-some-of-2020s-nc-state-level-primaries,4623
  *   County Commissioners and Board of Education: https://sites.duke.edu/dukevotes/explore-your-ballot/ (it has other races, but there isn't necessarily much on the candidates)

Regards, pat



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