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I’m the chair of the Board of Elections and wanted to clarify some of the discussion that has gone on about early voting:
Today, the Orange County Board of Elections voted to take early voting away from the UNC Campus. The early voting site at Seymour Senior Center would remain unchanged, but the second early voting site would be moved from the Morehead Planetarium to the Quik-E-Mart in University Square. While this may not seem like a big deal, moving the UNC student body's primary voting site off campus is the wrong thing to do. Below is the email from Town Manager Roger Stancil:
My Common Science blog this week in Chapelboro is about fracking (To Frack or Not to Frack?), a relatively new technology to extract natural gas from deep underground shale formations. There have been proposals to allow for this tecnology to be used in North Carolina including, potentially, in neighboring Chatham County. Last month 400 people showed up for a cautionaly meeting about fracking in Fearington Village.
After reviewing the benefits and risks, my view is that we will eventually need to extract this gas but should wait until some improvements in the technology are made to safeguard the evironment. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Many of you may assume - as I did - that all the elected officials in Orange County are registered as either Democrat or Unaffiliated voters. If so, then you would be wrong.
In the process of compiling information for a forthcoming spreadsheet of candidate information, I learned that Hillsborough Town Commissioner Evelyn Lloyd recently changed her registration from D to R. Just like that, we now have a Republican elected in Orange County - breaking many years of tradition. OK.
It's not unusual for one Republican to run in the lonely primary for County Commissioner in even years. Like it or not, it's understood that they will not be elected when put to a county-wide vote (especially since the Commissioners designed their district system to only barely change the status quo) but it's certainly their prerogative to run. It is even more Quixotic to run as a Republican in odd years when we elect our municipal leaders and our city school board.
Info from the county below. Put your money where your mouths are, people!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Contact: Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board of Orange County Commissioners, 919-245-2130
Orange County Seeks Applicants for Boards and Commissions
ORANGE COUNTY, NC – One major way citizens can have a positive impact on the future of Orange County is to volunteer to serve on the various County advisory boards and commissions.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners is recruiting citizen volunteers for the following advisory boards.
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