[Durham INC] Early voting update

[Mimi Kessler]

I took a training from You Can Vote the other day about helping people
register and vote.

The kernel I learned is this: If a voter does not have an ID that is
authorized (most employment and all college IDs are acceptable), they can
go to the poll and fill out a form that explains why they do not have a
picture ID. The form includes a long list of reasons that are acceptable
including health problems, transportation, and more.

So if anyone is concerned that they will not be able to vote, please tell
them the ID thing isn't as terrible as we thought. We should encourage them
to go vote.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 8:38 PM Pat Carstensen <pats1717 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> After 5 days of early voting, 1842 people have cast votes at early
> voting.  This is a Durham City Municipal election, the number of registered
> voters in Durham County is approximately 204,000 and about 90% of the
> residents of Durham County live in the city, so I am guessing this is a
> turn-out of about 1% so far.  Therefore, we will most likely beat
> Charlotte's 5% turnout (which obviously isn't saying much!)
>
> More and more people have been voting by mail (how to do it is at
> https://www.dcovotes.com/voters/voting/absentee-voting) so that will help
> the turn-out percentage as well.
>
> The schedule and locations for early voting are at:
> https://www.dcovotes.com/home/showpublisheddocument/39098/638233928770830000
>
> Details on the demographics of the turn-out are at:
> https://www.dconc.gov/home/showdocument?id=39520&t=638310047184110464
>
> Picture ID seems to be going OK -- BoE has a lot of information on it at:
> https://www.dcovotes.com/voters/voter-id
>
> A couple other changes:
>
>    - There are new improved machines to mark ballots for folks who are
>    visually impaired or whose hands don't work as well as they used to.
>    (Please use them so we get more experience with them before next year).
>    - The folks checking you in may ask what year you were born in before
>    they ask your address, especially if you have a common name like John
>    Williams.  Every year there is a mix-up or 2 of members of the same
>    household (dad has voted but Junior is the one marked in roles as having
>    voted), and they are hoping this will reduce the errors.  I guess at least
>    some people are more embarrassed at giving their middle name than their
>    birth year anyhow (-:
>    - The "ballot box" (technically the tabulator) where you put your
>    ballot at the end has cool new graphics on its screen
>
> Regards, pat
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Mimi Kessler
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"Democracy is not a spectator sport" - John Deen
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