The deadline to register for this year's primary is one week from today! The election will be on May 2nd. According to the Orange County Board of Elections, you can get registration forms at the following places:
- Board of Elections Office - 110 East King St., Hillsborough
- Carrboro Town Hall - W. Main St. Carrboro
- Chapel Hill Town Hall - North Columbia Street, Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill Public Library - Library Drive, Chapel Hill
- Davis Library, UNC-CH Campus
- Orange County Public Library - 300 W. Tryon Street, Hillsborough
- McDougle School Library, Old Fayetteville Rd., Carrboro
Also, I am a little behind where I wanted to be on collecting candidate information for the OP 2006 Election Guide. If you have web site addresses for any candidates in any races, please add them in the comments below. Thanks!
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OK, I'll start. Candidate
OK, I'll start. Candidate sites I know about are:
http://barryjacobs.org/
http://www.electmikenelson.com/
http://alicegordon.com/
http://www.jamiedaniel.org/
http://robincutson.com/
http://www.adamsteinforjudge.com/
http://judgeanderson.org/
http://elliekinnaird.org/
http://www.alstonforncsenate.com/
http://www.joehackney.com/
http://www.faisonforhouse.com/
http://www.parker4sheriff.com/
http://kanoy4congress.org/
http://www.priceforcongress.com/
Whew! That's a lot of Googling...
Please help out and fill in any others you may know. Thanks!
TODAY is the last to
TODAY is the last to register to vote to be eligible for the primary!
Did you register? I hope
Did you register? I hope so, you informed readers, you.
FYI, I have completed a comprehensive list of all the candidates that someone somewhere in Orange Country can vote for (although some won't appear on the May ballot as they are not contested in the primary). Please check it out at http://orangepolitics.org/elections-2006 and let me know if I am missing any candidate web sites. Thanks!
I just voted (#29 at
I just voted (#29 at Morehead) and was surprised to see that there was nowhere to write in a candidate for anything.
Their computer system was taking about 5 minutes to print off the affidavit for each voter, so it's not going to be a good thing if there's ever a crowd there.
Also, does anyone know if they randomize the ballot order for early voting, or do all early voting ballots have the same order?
Fred Battle, who I enthusiastically support, was last on my ballot, and it's a crowded field...
Tom, I must have just missed
Tom,
I must have just missed you, I was number 26 at 1:15 or so. Battle was the last on my ballot too, but the ballot they gave me was the same as the sample provided by the BoE. The Board does randomize the alphabet for the ballot, but I believe each ballot is the same.
Judge Anderson, who I enthusiastically support, was last on the ballot in another crowded filed.
Amon
All races have the
All races have the candidates listed in reverse alphabetical order, sort of.
They're reverse alphabetized by the first letter in the last name, except when there are two folks with the same last initial, in which case they then sort by forward alphabetization of the second letter in the last name.
I don't know if that qualifies as random so much as bizzare.
Kent Kanoy, who I begrudgingly voted for, is listed last in his crowded field.