GREENSBORO, N.C. — Demonstrators gathered in downtown Greensboro on Saturday for a No Kings rally built around one message: get to the polls early.
Indivisible Guilford County put on the event, which it called No Kings: Vote Early. The main gathering filled Governmental Plaza, and a second group of sign carriers stood along West Gate City Boulevard where drivers could see them. Singers led the crowd in protest songs, and buttons urging people to vote were passed around.
People who organized the rally and those who turned out for it said they worry the Trump administration could try to interfere with this fall’s midterm elections.
The rally landed in the first week of early voting in North Carolina. In-person early voting opened Thursday and runs through Oct. 31, ahead of Voters this year are deciding, among other races, a U.S. Senate seat where Republican Michael Whatley faces Roy Cooper, the state’s former governor.
Early voting access has already been a point of friction in Guilford County this fall. Both A&T and UNCG offered students a place to vote early on campus during the 2024 general election, but the Guilford County Board of Elections did not approve those sites this time. When early voting opened, hundreds of students from the two universities and Bennett College made the walk of roughly 45 minutes to the closest polling place instead. Organizers of Saturday’s rally framed their event the same way, as a push to make sure residents use the early voting window rather than wait.
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