In a 2-0 decision (with one abstention), the Durham County Board of Elections approved the State Board of Elections’ recommendation to extend early voting hours until 5 p.m. Saturday. Meanwhile, other counties, including Orange and Currituck, refused. (Update: According to the State Board of Elections website, Wake County has also extended voting until 5 p.m. […]
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Dept. of Justice to monitor polls in Alamance
Alamance County will be one of just 59 jurisdictions in the country the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division will monitor Tuesday. Could recent flare-ups over 287(g) be to blame? Update: A DOJ spokesman said he could not disclose why the counties and cities were selected for monitoring because it could signal the potential […]
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Over 2 million votes cast in NC
That’s one-third of all registered voters, and 58 percent of the 2004 voter turnout. 1.9 million have cast ballots at one-stop voting sites, and the rest have mailed in absentee ballots. For the full report, click here (PDF, 19 KB).
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Mecklenburg GOP Chairman: extended voting causes ‘stress’
The Charlotte Observer reports that Mecklenburg County Republican Party Chairman Lee Teague opposes the county’s extension of voting hours on Saturday, in part because it is “unfair to election workers, who are already stressed.” (The paper provided no direct quotes from Teague.) So, in addition to voting being an affront to democracy, it now is […]
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Whalebone or bust! Munger takes to the backroads.
Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger has departed on a three-day “Old Fashioned, Hand-Shaking, Back Roads and Small Towns” tour that stretches from Murphy to Whalebone, along “every inch of US 64.” Judging by the steady schedule of diner breakfasts, barbeque lunches and greasy-spoon dinners, Munger will likely be jogging back to Durham. Catch him in […]
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Barr, Nader and Baldwin to debate in Cleveland
Sad the debates–and with them, the winks, shoulder pats, split-screens and refusals to answer questions–are over? There’s one more left. Third-party candidates Bob Barr (Libertarian Party), Ralph Nader (independent) and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party) will debate today at 4:30 p.m. at the City Club of Cleveland. Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney was invited, though is […]
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With no chance of winning, Bob Barr stumps anyway
Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate for president, is seizing on Barack Obama’s increasing national momentum to urge disgruntled conservatives to vote Libertarian. His pitch: John McCain has no chance of winning on Nov. 4. This, from a candidate who has raised $1.2 million (one-third that of independent candidate Ralph Nader), and who is polling at […]
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DHA Section 8 director fired
Bryant Saunders, who took over as Section 8 director for the Durham Housing Authority in 2007, has been fired, the Herald-Sun reports (registration required). In an interview with the paper last week–and in an e-mail memo sent to City Council–Saunders claimed he had been fired in retaliation for his attempts to fire a subordinate: “It […]
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Nearly a half-million have voted early in NC
That’s roughly 9% of the state’s 5.5 million registered voters. The Indy endorsements issue hits news stands today. If you haven’t already, bring your voter clip-out guide, and VOTE. (You have until Sat., Nov 1 to register and vote in one stop.)
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Dept. of curious ledes: Obama ‘pushed race to the forefront’
The Herald-Sun, in its front-page analysis (registration required) of the role race has played in the 2008 election, opens with a curiously misleading sentence: When Barack Obama announced he was running for president nearly two years ago, he pushed race to the forefront of presidential politics in a way never done before. The statement reflects […]
