
{"id":2269,"date":"2008-04-08T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/04\/08\/registration-deadlines-election-update\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T06:29:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T14:29:25","slug":"registration-deadlines-election-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/04\/08\/registration-deadlines-election-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration deadlines\/ election update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder that regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.orange.nc.us\/elect\/registration.asp\">registration<\/a> is coming to a close, the early voting period is about to begin and there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.orange.nc.us\/elect\/2008PrimarySampleBallots.asp\">a complicated election<\/a> ahead. Oh, and our Democratic presidential primary counts this year.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll have a look at these and the races in this week&#8217;s <em>Citizen<\/em>.<br \/>\nRegistration deadlines and other info and links after the jump and on our Elections &#038; Politics site.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are now three ways to register and vote: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.orange.nc.us\/elect\/absentee.asp\">traditional Absentee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.orange.nc.us\/elect\/onestop.asp\">Same Day Registration Absentee<\/a> (One Stop) and traditional registration.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the traditional method via the OC BOE:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The registration deadline for those who want to vote in the May 6 election falls on April 11.<br \/>\nTo vote in Orange County, you must be:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 a U.S. citizen and resident of North Carolina and this county for 30 days before the election;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 at least 18 years old on or before the next election;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 not registered and not voting in any other county or state.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 if convicted of a felony, your rights of citizenship have been restored;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 if you move out of your precinct but remain within Orange County you should notify the board office in writing of your new address.<\/p>\n<p>Registration forms can be found at public buildings and libraries in the County or online at the Orange County Board of Elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.orange.nc.us\/elect\/registration.asp\">website<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder that regular registration is coming to a close, the early voting period is about to begin and there&#8217;s a complicated election ahead. Oh, and our Democratic presidential primary counts this year. We&#8217;ll have a look at these and the races in this week&#8217;s Citizen. Registration deadlines and other info and links after the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}