Current:Home > ScamsEarly voting begins for elections in hundreds of North Carolina municipalities -FutureWise Finance
Early voting begins for elections in hundreds of North Carolina municipalities
View
Date:2025-04-17 19:32:03
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Fall elections in hundreds of North Carolina municipalities are picking up as early in-person voting begins for mayoral races and city council seats.
The State Board of Elections says over 460 cities, towns and villages are conducting elections that culminate Nov. 7 in places like Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Durham and Fayetteville. All but 80 of them provide early voting that begins Thursday and runs through Nov. 4. Mail-in absentee voting had already started in those early-vote locales.
Some municipalities held primary or general elections in September and October. Voters in those races were among the first to have to comply with the state’s new photo identification requirement, which was upheld by the state Supreme Court in April.
State elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said this week that most voters so far this year have been able to present qualifying IDs, although some have used the exception form to cast a ballot. The big test for voter identification will come during presidential-year elections in 2024.
Citizens who live where early voting is happening can also register to vote and cast a ballot at voting sites through what’s called same-day registration.
veryGood! (333)
Related
- A Mississippi company is sentenced for mislabeling cheap seafood as premium local fish
- Combative billionaire Bill Ackman uses bare-knuckle boardroom tactics in a wider war
- Daniel Will: First Principles Interpretation of FinTech & AI Turbo.
- Kansas City police identify 3 men found dead outside friend's home
- EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
- Thai court says popular politician Pita Limjaroenrat didn’t violate law, can remain a lawmaker
- Tropical low off northeast Australia reaches cyclone strength
- Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens
- This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
- Heavy snow strands scores of vehicles on a main expressway in central Japan
Ranking
- McKinsey to pay $650 million after advising opioid maker on how to 'turbocharge' sales
- If the part isn't right, Tracee Ellis Ross says 'turn it into what you want it to be'
- Proof Squid Game Season 2 Is Coming Sooner Than You Think
- Mob Wife Winter: Everything You Need to Achieve the Trending Aesthetic
- Sarah J. Maas books explained: How to read 'ACOTAR,' 'Throne of Glass' in order.
- Daniel Will: Historical Lessons on the Bubble of the U.S. Stock Market
- Calista Flockhart teases reboot of beloved '90s comedy 'Ally McBeal' after Emmys reunion
- If the part isn't right, Tracee Ellis Ross says 'turn it into what you want it to be'
Recommendation
Meet first time Grammy nominee Charley Crockett
Federal prosecutors charge 40 people after four-year probe of drug trafficking in Mississippi
Duchess Meghan, Prince Harry make surprise appearance at Bob Marley movie premiere
A plagiarism scandal rocks Norway’s government
A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
Groundwater depletion accelerating in many parts of the world, study finds
2024 McDonald's All American Games rosters: Cooper Flagg, Me'Arah O'Neal highlight list
New Hampshire voter exit polls show how Trump won the state's 2024 Republican primary