Nearly all early voting sites in western NC are ready to open next week

All Hurricane Helene-damaged counties will be ready to accept in-person voters when early voting starts statewide on Oct. 17.

Nearly all the early voting sites that elections officials in those western North Carolina counties had planned to open can still be used, state Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell told reporters Thursday. Of the 80 locations originally planned in those counties, 75 will open.

“This is absolutely outstanding that our county boards of elections have pulled this off in western North Carolina given the devastation and destruction left by Helene,” she said.

State elections officials talked to reporters the day after the General Assembly approved rules for voters from 25 Helene-damaged counties that will make it easier for displaced residents to vote and for local boards of election to relocate polling places.




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