We have heard a couple of reports that legitimate voters have been removed from the voter rolls for unknown reasons. Luckily, same-day registration is allowed during early voting only. Voting early at the one-stop voting locations is as easy as can be. Locations are listed below.
Remember, if you choose to vote a straight party ticket, that vote does not include the race for president or any of the non-partisan races on the back of the paper ballot. As the ballot states, “You may select a Straight Party AND ALSO vote for a candidate of a a different party in any individual office.” Take your “Alaskan Gold” slate card (available at our downtown Headquarters at 46 Haywood St. Suite 222) with you to remind you of your non-partisan choices.
View your sample ballot and information about Republican and Conservative candidates.
Early Voting locations:
Asheville Senior Opportunity Center
36 Grove St.
Asheville, NC
Avery’s Creek Community Center
899 South East Glenn Bridge Rd.
Arden, NC
Biltmore Square Mall
800 Brevard Rd.
Asheville, NC
Buncombe County Training Center
199 College St.
Asheville, NC
Cheshire Village - Black Mountain
2 East Market St.
Black Mountain, NC
Fairview Branch Library
1 Taylor Rd.
Fairview, NC
Innsbruck Mall
85 Tunnel Rd.
Asheville, NC
Leicester Branch Library
1561 Alexander Rd.
Leicester, NC
North Asheville Branch Library
1030 Merrimon Ave.
Asheville, NC
Oak Forest Presbyterian Church
880 Sand Hill Rd.
Asheville, NC
South Buncombe Branch Library
260 Overlook Rd.
Asheville, NC
University of North Carolina Asheville
Zeis Building
1 University Heights
Asheville, NC
Weaverville Town Hall
30 South Main St.
Weaverville, NC
West Asheville Branch Library
942 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC
Thanks for the report on voters being removed from the roll.
Could you ask people for more detail?
Also, we heard from a voter (I’ll call him “John L. Doe”) in Cary NC. Before going to the polls, “Doe” checked his registration online through the NC SBoE site, and verified he was registered. He even downloaded his sample ballot (that would be similar to what he would get at the polling place). Later that day he went to the polls, and they could not find him in the voter registration database.
Wake County is using laptops (not paper poll books) to check the voter registration database online. I do not know if they connected live to the SBOE database, or to the county database.
The voter ended up using Same Day Registration and re-registered as “John Lee Doe”
We are still investigating.
But I can tell you that I checked a link on the Wake County BoE and found this voters name and old registration file “John L Doe” (since the late 1970’s) which had been up to date as of a few weeks ago.
Then I went to the NC SBoE site, and found Mr. Doe’s new registration file, for John Lee Doe, registered just the other day.
So he had been registered under the old file, had even voted in the primary, verified it, downloaded his sample ballot, and went to the polls and they could not find his name in the records, no matter how they searched for his name. His family members records were found.
Please contact me with information, I am Joyce McCloy at http://www.ncvoter.net there’s a tab for my email at the site.
We will know more soon, but the advent of online voter registration databases may mean the disenfranchisement of several valid voters.
Thanks!