A still-to-be-decided presidential-vote outcome and two top-ticket women brought national attention to North Carolina’s Nov. 4 voting patterns and election results
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We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. There are two extremely important things to remember when you cast your ballot, whether it’s during early voting or on Election Day: 1. Voting a straight-party ticket will not include the presidential race or the nonpartisan contests. You must mark your choices in those races separately. […]
Remember the nonpartisan races
Nonpartisan offices on the ballot Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert H. (Bob) Edmunds Jr. Suzanne Reynolds Court of Appeals Judge John C. Martin Court of Appeals Judge Jewel Ann Farlow James A. (Jim) Wynn Court of Appeals Judge Sam J. Ervin IV Kristin Ruth Court of Appeals Judge Cheri Beasley Dough McCullough Court of Appeals […]
Questions and concerns
Rumors about voting—and making sure your vote counts—have abounded in the run-up to the 2008 general election. To help sort fact from fiction, Xpress solicited readers’ questions about the local voting process and posed them to Buncombe County Director of Elections Trena Parker, whose answers are given below. Is early voting available on weekends? Yes. […]
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Prepping for this election season, the Buncombe County Board of Elections has redesigned its Web site (www.buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/Election) to make it more user-friendly. A new list of links to services and information is easily accessible on the home page—including sample ballots, polling locations, registration verification, important deadlines and a direct link to the state Board of […]
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With the advent of Non-Stop Early Voting (Oct. 16 through Nov. 1) and its proven popularity in recent elections, the Mountain Xpress will offer its Voter Guide edition a little earlier than usual. Look for it next week, Oct. 22, with the results of our surveys of candidates for the U.S. Congress, the N.C. House […]
Questions about voting? Ask now!
Before you journey to the polls — during the Early Voting period over the next two weeks or on the Nov. 4 General Election Day — what information would you like to have about the voting process? Ask us here, and we’ll share the answers with everyone.
North Carolina’s voter-verification process questioned
North Carolina is one of six states asked by Social Security Administration to investigate “extraordinarily high levels” of voter verifications by Social Security number instead of by state-issued identification.
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One Stop Early Voting begins on Thursday, Oct. 16, and ends on Saturday, Nov. 1 (all polls open from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 1). Early Voting is offered Monday through Saturday at the following locations in Buncombe County: • Asheville Senior Opportunity Center, 36 Grove St., Asheville (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) […]
Henderson and Polk counties explore water strategies
Regional growth trends are driving long-term planning for water supplies in Henderson and Polk counties, involving a bid to withdraw up to 8 million gallons a day from Lake Adger.
N.C. voter registration hits record 6 million
With a gain of 603,000 new voters in the state, the most people ever are eligible to vote in North Carolina 2008 general election.
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Coming soon—one-stop early voting! Besides voting early, you can register or change your registration on the spot (bring ID). The Buncombe County Board of Elections has announced 15 satellite locations; early voting starts Thursday, Oct. 16, and ends Saturday, Nov. 1 (call 250-4200). To help a close relative who’s housebound or out of town, e-mail: […]
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The N.C. State Board of Elections is offering an unusual opportunity in advance of the Nov. 4 election—a program called Vote in Honor of a Veteran. Voters can request a button personalized with the name of a veteran they want to honor on election day (only one button per person). Requests for the free buttons […]
Playin’ it safe
The naked facts: More than half the high-school students in North Carolina have had sexual intercourse, 13 percent of them before age 13. Of those sexually active teens, 16 percent have had sex with four or more partners, 21 percent used drugs or alcohol before intercourse, and roughly half did not protect themselves and their […]
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Thursday, Sept. 18: Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum, featuring candidates for chairmanship of the Buncombe Board of Commissioners, plus candidates for county commission and state legislative positions. Candidates will address their top-priority issues, and there will be Q&A time available. For more information, contact Jeff Joyce at 258-6122. The forum takes place at […]
Plot thickens for controversial Big Ridge development near Cashiers
Federal prosecutors have taken over the case of one of the investors in the Jackson County’s Blue Ridge Mountain Estates development .
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A note on North Carolina’s youth vote: About one-fourth of the state’s citizens ages 18 to 25 are still not registered to vote, according to a recent report by the nonprofit campaign-reform group Democracy North Carolina. And although Bob Hall, the group’s executive director, stresses that 90,000 more young people are registered now than in […]
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The first step towards voting in this year’s general election on Nov. 4 is to make sure you are registered to vote—and registered correctly. The state’s registration deadline is 25 days before the election date (Oct. 10). If you are registering as a Buncombe County resident for the first time, or if you need to […]
We need to talk
“A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.” That title line of an early ‘60s musical comedy-of-errors has now turned out to be more pertinent to Asheville than we might wish. For the last two months, Mountain Xpress has been working to pull together a forum on the broader governmental issues underlying the […]
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Local campaigning for the November elections is heating up, so Campaign Calendar will appear regularly from now until Xpress’ last edition before Nov. 4. We will spotlight campaign events that are open to the public, and we invite all candidates to send their campaign news for inclusion here. Please give us a brief description of […]
WNC women celebrate “watershed year”
The Western Carolina Women’s Coalition, an advocacy and education group, will be celebrating women in American politics at a Sunday, Aug. 24, gathering in Asheville.