Early in-person voting getting underway in North Carolina

A site in Johnston County opened an hour late because of a wreck on Interstate 95, Patrick Gannon, spokesman for the State Board of Elections told The Associated Press.

The two election judges went to the voter and showed her how to correct her ballot, Berry said. Gannon said a full update is expected Friday.

No matter how early they’re submitted, those registrations are treated as though the new voter walked into a polling place on November 8: They won’t be verified or entered in the statewide database until after Election Day.

“Our IT guys got here quickly to fix it and away we went”, said election officer Wanda Bruce Graham.

“If someone is lying”, Stanart says, “we will be turning that over to the DA so they can investigate”.

This year, as in past elections, the hundreds of monitors on the ground will responsible for making sure voters aren’t treated differently because of race or gender, that disabled voters are being accommodated and that voters who need them have bilingual election materials, Lynch said in her video message.

Dr. Headrick says the claims of widespread fraud are simply not true. “But I’m not hearing that the level of paranoia is much different from in previous years”.

In downtown Raleigh, more than 200 stood in line at lunchtime outside the Chavis Community Center. And while that’s problematic enough on its own, the real problem with Trump’s rigged election talk is that it will give Republican legislatures all across the country a new justification to ramp up their war on young people, people of color and older people voting.

“Asking a voter on the streets of NY the simple question, ‘Why is voting important to you?’ opens up so many different stories and opinions”, said Jessica Su, a high school student who interned at CFB and collected the interviews, writing in the program’s blog.

Cooper’s race against incumbent Republican Gov. If you’re not boned up on candidates for U.S. Senate, Congress, state Assembly, state Senate and St. Croix County district attorney, we caution you to do so before voting early.

Only one observer is allowed inside a polling site and they have to be out of the way of voters and machines, Mace said.

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. It grew by a week after a federal court struck down a 2013 law scaling back the number of days. Voting for the 2016 General Election in North Carolina and Caldwell County will begin on Thursday, October 20 and last through Saturday, November 5.

While the presidential campaign has dominated news coverage, Washington voters will also vote for a governor and a US senator.

The long lines caused some to leave and return the following day. “Basically can’t wait ’til it’s over”. She suggested a combination of using provisional ballots – which aren’t officially tallied until after a voters’ registration is verified – and implementing electronic registration at polling places to immediately process registrations on Election Day or ahead of time. “So, it’s becoming a popular trend”, said Tim Tsujii, Forsyth County Board of Elections director. She said voters have to sign their names and provide identification to cast ballots. Beverly Crowder of Durham just wanted to “get it over with”.

Registered Republican Mark Williams was more ambivalent.

It should be a win-win for the voters and the Board of Elections.