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Early Voting period is underway

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published August 20, 2019 at 5:01 PM EDT

Early in-person voting is underway in two U-S Congressional Districts. The elections will fill seats in the 3rd and 9th U-S Congressional Districts. The 3rd district seat became vacant with the death of Congressman Walter Jones Jr. in February. The 9th district seat has been vacant following the state Board of Elections calling for a re-do of the November 2018 election over possible absentee ballot fraud involving a contractor for Republican Mark Harris’ campaign. In the 3rd District, Republican Greg Murphy, Democrat Allen Thomas, Libertarian Tim Harris and Greg Holt of the Constitution Party are on the ballot. In the 9th District, Republican Dan Bishop will face Democrat Dan McCready… who narrowly trailed Mark Harris in November 2018…, Libertarian Jeff Scott and the Green Party’s Allen Smith. Early in-person voting ends Friday, September 6 with Election Day on Tuesday, September 10.

Information on early voting one-stop sites here.
George Olsen
George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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