
{"id":2346,"date":"2008-04-17T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/04\/17\/election-brief-turnout-concerns\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T07:01:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T15:01:28","slug":"election-brief-turnout-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/04\/17\/election-brief-turnout-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Brief: Turnout concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With interest in North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential primary building, a watchdog group is calling on state and local officials to beef up preparations for a surge of voters on May 6 and at the one-stop early-voting sites that open across the state today (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like preparing for a hurricane and a week-long rock concert at the same time,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, a nonpartisan election-reform organization. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Officials need to plan for every contingency, add extra personnel, anticipate where bottlenecks will happen and keep educating the public about changes in conditions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Democracy North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recommendations include opening more early-voting sites during the week of April 21, opening sites on Saturdays and Sundays and getting advance cooperation from college officials to process last-minute registrations from students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With interest in North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential primary building, a watchdog group is calling on state and local officials to beef up preparations for a surge of voters on May 6 and at the one-stop early-voting sites that open across the state today (Thursday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","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=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}