RALEIGH, N.C. — With early voting well underway, North Carolina election officials are reminding voters what to do if something goes wrong at a voting site, from a question about procedures to feeling threatened in line.
The first stop is the poll worker. Election workers at the site can settle many problems on the spot, and when they cannot, they pass the issue to the chief judge at that location or to the county board of elections. Statewide election officials advise voters to get help before they walk away rather than leave with the problem unresolved.
Intimidating a voter is a crime. Anyone who feels harassed, threatened or intimidated at a polling place should tell election workers, and in an emergency should dial 911 and alert a poll worker right away. Officials are also asking voters to stay calm and treat one another with courtesy, whatever their politics.
Questions about whether someone is eligible, how registration works or how to cast a ballot can go to the county board, which runs elections in each county. The statewide elections board, which oversees voting across North Carolina, can help too.
Some partisan and nonpartisan groups run their own voter hotlines. Those lines can be useful, the state board says, but they are not official election offices, so voters should go to poll workers or county officials first for authoritative answers.
Turnout has been strong. About 486,000 people cast ballots in person over the first days of early voting, roughly half again as many as at this point in the last midterm. Democrats have traditionally made up the biggest share of early voters in the state, but in the 2024 presidential race Republicans topped them at in-person early sites, a first. In-person early voting ends at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31. On Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, voting sites open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.
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