By Josh Green, NBC17 Reporter
DURHAM, N.C. — Ebony Ford was 20 in 2004, plenty old enough to vote. But she didn’t.
“I thought it meant nothing,” she said as she left Durham’s Board of Elections for the first time this week. “This year … it’s a big difference: different senators, different options.”
By Paul Matadeen, NBC17 Reporter
DURHAM, N.C. — They walked about two blocks from the classroom to the precinct.
On Wednesday morning, eight students and staff members from New Horizon School voted for president as part of Durham County’s early voting process.
By Sergio Quintana, NBC17 Reporter
WAKE COUNTY, N.C. — For the election in 2004, about 700,000 voters in North Carolina casted their ballots at early voting stations.
Wake County election officials say they’ve seen a surge in voter registrations since the beginning of the month.
By Josh Green, NBC17 Reporter
RALEIGH, N.C. — Barbara Everitt spent the day making sure her team at the Board of Elections knew what the game plan was.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The NC Same Day Voter Registration Coalition, which led advocacy efforts to win NC’s first voting rights expansion for Same Day Voter Registration at Early Voting Sites, will have a press conference to promote public education on Thursday at 11 a.m. in front of the State Board of Elections Building at 506 North Harrington Street, in Raleigh. NC State Board of Election officials will join the press conference.
North Carolina offers “Same Day Voter Registration at Early Voting Sites.” On-site voter registration will be available at Early Voting locations between Oct. 16 and Nov. 1 for the upcoming General Election on Nov. 4. You may not register on Election Day.
In order to take advantage of this option, voters must be a U.S. citizen and — by Election Day – be at least 18 years old and have lived in the county at least 30 days. Voters must show election officials an acceptable form of identification as proof of your residence. Below are the options:
· NC Driver’s License.
· Utility bill, including a bill from an electric, water, gas, telephone or cable company.
· Bank statement or bank-card statement.
· Paycheck or stub.
· Student ID and a document from the school with the student’s address.
· Any local, state, or federal government document showing your residential address, such as a car registration, fishing license, military ID, Social Security letter, tax bill, building permit, etc.
CLEVELAND — Some Ohio voters aren’t waiting until November to cast their votes for president.
Residents began casting absentee ballots this morning, after state and federal courts upheld a ruling that allows people to register and vote absentee on the same day.
One of the five people in line at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections this morning says he’s voting today so that he can work on Election Day, helping others get out to vote.
But the Ohio Republican Party is asking the federal appeals court in Cincinnati to stop the early voting. Short of that, it’s asking the court to direct the state’s top election official to separate the ballots of those registering and voting the same day, so they can be verified. That’s something Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has already ordered.
The Ohio GOP accuses Brunner — a Democrat — of interpreting the early voting law to benefit her own party.
