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NC Voting Fight, Part 2: Early Voting Debate Begins

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Tuesday, August 9, 2016   

GREENSBORO, N.C. - The saga of North Carolina's voting laws was seemingly settled last week when a federal appeals court declared the state's policies requiring voter IDs, and eliminating same day registration, discriminatory. But the debate rages on as local boards of elections face establishing early voting sites and hours for the November election. Monday in Guilford County, more than 200 concerned citizens staged a sit-in to ask the local Board of Election to maintain maximum access to early voting.

Jen Jones, the communications manager for Democracy North Carolina was there.

"Guilford County was the first test to see whether these early voting plans would be slashed in the wake of directives from Republican leaders, to get political, to save money and to suppress the vote in the ways that they now have, which are the early voting periods," she said.

Monday the Guilford County Board of Elections adopted a 17-day early voting plan that kept early voting sites open around the county, including those located on local university campuses and in African-American neighborhoods. By August 19th, all 100 of North Carolina's county boards of elections must determine their early voting hours and locations.

Jones said with so much at stake in North Carolina when it comes to local, state and the presidential election, it's important that citizens work with their policy makers to maintain access to early voting.

"We know than when community activists come out like they did in Guilford County to fight back against voter suppression, good things happen," she added. "Board of Elections members are listening, and we hope in all 100 counties, people will turn up and turn out at their Board of Elections meetings to fight for early voting where they live."

In 2012, 56 percent of North Carolina voters cast ballots during the early voting period for the November election.


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