
{"id":675,"date":"2007-08-02T07:32:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T15:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/08\/02\/letters-to-the-editor-80207\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T07:32:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T15:32:54","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-80207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/08\/02\/letters-to-the-editor-80207\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor: 8\/02\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Early voting site a necessity<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Board of Elections should reconsider the recommendation to eliminate the early-voting site on UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campus this year and, instead, move early voting to the Senior Center on Homestead Rd.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few elections, the early-voting site at Morehead Planetarium has provided a convenient voting opportunity to thousands upon thousands of students, staff, faculty and the members of the general public. In my opinion, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s critical that we have an early-voting site on campus to serve the citizens who live, work and study there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I believe we have a responsibility to provide early-voting opportunities that are convenient for voters. In a college town, a site on campus is a necessity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Nelson<\/strong><br \/>\nOrange County Commissioner<br \/>\n749-6155<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early voting site a necessity The Board of Elections should reconsider the recommendation to eliminate the early-voting site on UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campus this year and, instead, move early voting to the Senior Center on Homestead Rd. For the past few elections, the early-voting site at Morehead Planetarium has provided a convenient voting opportunity to thousands upon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}