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North Carolina

littlemissmartypants

(25,483 posts) Wed Feb 19, 2020, 07:41 PM Feb 2020

Early Voting

Early Voting in the 2020 Primary runs from Thursday, February 13th – Saturday, February 29th. All counties have every weekday of Early Voting open from 8 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Some counties also offer extra Saturday and/or Sunday hours.

Election Day is on Tuesday, March 3rd.

For the latest on where or how to vote, call or text 888-OUR-VOTE.

More info at the link.

https://www.ncvoter.org/early-voting-locations/

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Early Voting (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Feb 2020 OP

North Carolina is a semi- closed primary. apcalc Feb 2020 #1

What do you mean by semi-closed? murielm99 Feb 2020 #2

Semi-closed aka a hybrid primary is a littlemissmartypants Feb 2020 #3

Thanks. murielm99 Feb 2020 #4

apcalc

(4,518 posts)

1. North Carolina is a semi- closed primary.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed Feb 19, 2020, 07:45 PM

Feb 2020

murielm99

(31,437 posts)

2. What do you mean by semi-closed?

Reply to apcalc (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 19, 2020, 11:33 PM

Feb 2020

littlemissmartypants

(25,483 posts)

3. Semi-closed aka a hybrid primary is a

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 20, 2020, 03:25 AM

Feb 2020

type of primary election in which previously unaffiliated voters may participate in the partisan primary of their choice. Voters who are already affiliated with a political party can vote only in that party's primary.

https://ballotpedia.org/Semi-closed_primary

murielm99

(31,437 posts)

4. Thanks.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 20, 2020, 05:36 AM

Feb 2020

I use ballotpedia, too. I looked it up. I just wondered if we were talking about the same thing.

We have an open primary in Illinois. I think all primaries should be closed.

I would think that a semi-closed primary could cause a lot of extra work for election judges. It can be hard to recruit judges as it is.

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