gercohen's blog
Yes, there is a primary June 7.
Orange County has just two items on the ballot, a Supreme Court nonpartisan primary to narrow the field from 4 to 2, and a GOP primary in the 4th Congressional District. In the former all Orange County residents can vote, in the latter just Republicans and unaffiliated (unaffiliated can vote in that primary regardless of whether they voted in the Democratic or Republican primary March 15)
For Supreme Court there are 4 candidates:
Bob Edmunds, a Greensboro Republican who is the incumbent Justice. I've known Bob 45 years, and he contributed to my 1975 Chapel Hill mayoral campaign. More recently he's voted consistently in lockstep with the 4-3 GOP majority on the NC Supreme Court.
Mike Morgan, a black Democrat from Wake County. Mike has been a superior court judge the last 8 years and was a district court judge before that.
Sabra Faires, an unaffiliated voter in Wake County, the plaintiff in litigation that overturned the up or down retention election ordered by the 2015 General Assembly and forced a more normal election
Daniel Robertson, a Davie County Democrat. I know nothing about him
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Tucson's method of nominating city council members in districts and electing them citywide (similar to Orange County's method for electing commissioners) was unconstitutional.
This fall there are four early voting sites with a total of 236 site hours, see http://www.orangecountync.gov/2015_November_3_One_stop_Voting_Sites.pdf. County board of elections have pretty complete discretion on municipal early voting subject to the $$$ the towns appropriate to pay for it.
The 2013 legislation that cut early voting from 17 to 10 days requires preservation of the same number of site hours that were in the 2010 and 2012 primaries and elections as a floor. The statutory floors for 2016 are:
March presidential primary 426 hours
May primary if it is not moved to March 226 hours (roughly same schedule as 2015 municipal)
November General election 528 hours
This means that for the March presidential primary there may need to be 7 sites instead of the 4 this fall and even at 7 there may need to be more hours per day, more hours on Saturdays, and perhaps even a Sunday
For the 2016 general election it will likely be 9 sites to handle the 528 hours over 10 days
Vote by mail starts Friday September 5 for the November 4 election. For the first time there is a form that you can print out, fill out and sign, then submit in one of 3 ways: US Mail, FAX, or scan and attach to an email. You don't have to wait til Friday to submit your request. details:
http://www.co.orange.nc.us/elect/absentee.asp
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