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Early
Voting Ends Saturday;
City Elections Tuesday
The Carolina Scoop learned on
Thursday voters who vote a straight
Republican or Democratic ticket in early
voting or during the elections next
Tuesday will not be automatically voting
for ward 3 city council candidate Jay
Thomas.
Thomas is listed as
“unaffiliated” on the ballot.
He is running against incumbent Democrat
Carroll Heavner.
“If a voter wants to vote for Jay
Thomas and they vote straight party for
either Democrat or Republican, they must
select Jay Thomas' name because he is
unaffiliated,” said Lincoln County
Elections Director Judy Caudill.
The Carolina Scoop has provided a link to
the sample ballot in both English and
Spanish. Here is a link to
the precinct locations within the city.
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for larger image
“Because of the increasing
Hispanic population, I printed a sample
ballot (in both languages),” said
Caudill.
As of Friday afternoon around 4pm, 102 of
5,969 registered voters have taken
advantage of early voting in Lincolnton
elections. Voters who want to take
advantage of early voting have until 1pm
Saturday.
Two candidates – Thomas and Tim
Shain – have already voted early.
Shain is a Republican running for the
ward 1 city council seat against
incumbent Fred Houser.
Republican mayoral candidate John
Gilleland is challenging Democrat Mayor
David Black, who is in his first term as
mayor.
Caudill said polls in the city election
are open from 6:30am – 7:30am
Tuesday.
Turnout in the elections is expected to
be low.
“We won’t have as many voters
as we would have if we were in a
presidential election year,” said
Caudill. “And with a county election
next year, we’ll have about 7,000
early voters come through the office (at
that time).”
Caudill said of the 58 absentee ballots
mailed out since Oct. 5, 43 ballots have
been returned as of Thursday. Voters with
absentee ballots have until 5pm Monday,
Nov. 2, to get the ballots mailed in to
the elections office.
Demographics and party affiliation may
play active rolls in whether or not the
incumbents remain in office, according to
numbers revealed by Caudill.
Of the 5,969 eligible voters in the City
of Lincolnton, roughly half (2,999) are
Democrats; 1,729 are Republicans; 1,235
are unaffiliated and six are Libertarian.
More than half of registered voters in
Lincolnton are females – 3,336
– while 2,610 are males.
“There were 23 people who
wouldn’t say what they were,”
said Caudill.
People within the city who want to vote
early can go to the James W. Warren
Citizens Center, going to the Board of
Elections office on the second floor.
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