North Carolina: Hurricane flooding will cause some voting changes
KINSTON, N.C. — Sandbags are stacked around the Lenoir County Board of Elections office, said Dana King, just in case the Neuse River rises out of its banks, across the road and into her parking lot this weekend.
King's office is continuing to process voter registrations, take requests for absentee ballots and prepare for the start of early voting on Oct. 20, even though she may not be able to get to some of her early voting locations before next week.
"If the water goes down, Pink Hill isn't going to be a problem," King said of the town hall that doubles as polling place. For right now, it's dry, but people can't drive there. Two other early voting sites are swamped, she said. As for locations that she would use on Nov. 8, Election Day, 12 of them are in the south of the county where she's been unable to check.
"We are completely blocked off from the south side of the county right now," she said.
Decision 2016 graphic Q&A: Voting in election 2016 Elections officials in Lenoir and other counties hard hit by flooding in the wake of Hurricane Matthew say they are preparing to move forward with voting as best they can. But they said it's unlikely all of the state's early voting locations will be open on Oct. 20, and it remains to be seen how many Election Day polling places will be shut down, if any.
"It looks as though, right now, the good news is every county board of election in the state is open," state Elections Director Kim Strach told a meeting of the State Board of Elections on Thursday. Some counties don't have Internet access or power, she said, but all are at least operating in some way
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people can vote even in the midst of this disaster and recovery from Hurricane Matthew.
