NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Three media partners are coming together to help inform New Hanover County voters about candidates seeking local seats this election season.
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Port City Daily, WHQR and WECT will welcome candidates to a forum at Cape Fear Community College’s Union Station Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 6 p.m. The three media partners have come together in the last three years to inform voters on where candidates’ stand on pressing issues, during both primary and general election seasons.
The first half of Wednesday’s forum, open to the public, will include journalists Brenna Flanagan of Port City Daily, Ava Brendgord of WECT and Kelly Kenoyer of WHQR asking commissioner candidates questions at 6 p.m.
Thereafter at 7:15 p.m., the board of education candidates will take the mic to speak on issues as posed by Flanagan, Brendgord and Rachel Keith (WHQR).
Both forums will be moderated by WECT anchor Jon Evans. While reporters have devised questions for the candidates, the media consortium is also asking for readers, listeners and viewers to include ideas they would like broached; questions are being accepted here.
Port City Daily has also begun publishing its candidate questionnaires ahead of the election, which can be read here.
Sample ballots are available for voters to become familiar with candidates ahead of voting and below are a few dates to consider in the coming month:
- Voter registration deadline for Election Day and absentee voting: Oct. 11 (check registration here)
- Absentee ballot deadline request: Oct. 29; return the ballot by Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m.
- Or register and vote on the same day during early voting: Oct. 17 – Nov. 5Â
- Photo ID is needed to vote and free IDs are provided by all 100 county boards of elections. Don’t have an ID? Submit an ID exception form and vote provisional ballot.
- Election Day: Nov. 5
Below are the early voting sites, open to anyone no matter their precinct, in New Hanover County:
- Carolina Beach Town Hall, 1121 N. Lake Boulevard
- CFCC Downtown Campus, Health Sciences Building, 415 N. Second St.
- Future NHC Board of Elections, 226 Government Dr.
- Northeast Regional Library, David Poynter Room, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.
- NHC Senior Resource Center, Multipurpose Room, 2222 S. College Rd.
The sites are open: Oct. 17-18, Oct. 21-25, Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 8 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 19-20 and Oct. 26-27, noon – 5 p.m.; and Nov. 2, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.Â
On Election Day, only registered voters will be allowed to cast ballots and must go to their precinct’s locale; check voter registration and polling place here.
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