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Wake Co manager’s proposed budget funds 10 early voting sites unanimously requested by county board of elections. Pending county commissioners budget approval, board of elections will choose the sites at an Aug 19 meeting. Previous mid term primary sites: 2022 8; 2018 6; 2014 5. #ncpol

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On Tuesday, the Wake Co Board of Elections unanimously set an early voting schedule with 4 sites for 13 municipalities with elections Nov 4, 2025, link www.wake.gov/departments-... —see attached B&W and color flyers. #wakepol #ncpol /1

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I have two extra tickets to sell for tonight's (Tues 4/29) 7:30 pm Carolina Hurricanes @canes vs NJ Devils playoff game at @lenovo Center. Upper corner 309 seats 9 and 10, $82 each which is what I paid for them. Subject to prior sale. Pay via VENMO or ZELLE. Reply or DM

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#ncsbe just approved 97 photo IDs for voting in 2025/ 2026: student IDs for all 16 UNC system schools, 20 private colleges +24 community colleges (hard only, no digital IDs yet due to 2024 court decision) - details at www.ncsbe.gov/news/press-r... #ncpol list: www.ncsbe.gov/voting/voter...

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wow lots of upcoming events at @LenovoCenter in Raleigh #playoffs May 6 Linkin Park May 9 Shane Gillis May 11 Pearl Jam May 13 Pearl Jam May 23 Rauw Alejandro June 7 Wu-Tang Clan June 15 Lil Baby

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for Carolina Hurricanes game 3 on Friday, TBS is updating its coverage plan. For Saturday TBS coverage play by play announcers were in the studio rather than in the arena, but Friday they also will be blindfolded! Another reason to watch the regional carrier (FanDuel Sports for the @Canes)

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Wake County has 212 election day precincts, at 4/29/25 board of elections meeting, we are scheduled to divide 5 for new total of 217. In 2000 we had 175 precincts, population is up 80%. Precincts added airtable.com/appY4SN5r8qj...: 2001 13 2005 5 2007 7 2011 2 2017 2 2019 2 2021 2 2023 4

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candidate filing for 2025 NC municipal elections starts in 79 days and ends in 90 days — runs July 7-18, 2025. Wake County municipal candidate filing info is at www.wake.gov/departments-... #wakepol #ncpol

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pre-game coverage on @NHL_On_TNT of the Canes-Caps game is an absolute joke — 24 minutes into the 30 they have not even mentioned the @canes !! I will be watching the game at 7 on WRAL

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from the @nhl — playoff clinching scenarios for the Carolina Hurricanes on April 1

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At Wake Co Board of Elections to celebrate retirement of Eva B Diggs-Jardia after 32 years with board staff. She has worked at 96 Wake County Elections !!

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Rud Turnbull obit - School of Government faculty in the 1970s www.legacy.com/us/obituarie... when i was in law school 1972-75 Rud staffed #NCGA election committees and I spent a lot of time in his office working on election law bills especially absentee voting — a great mentor #ncpol

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Congrats to new NCSU Chancellor Kevin Howell. I had #ncga interactions with Kevin when he lobbied for State, and in 2014-20 worked with him on Wake Co elections issues relevant to students, one email I have references working with him when he was NCSU student body Prez in the 1980s !

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interesting hockey background for incoming Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney — at Harvard (Class of 88) he played goalie for the varsity hockey team, and was a roommate of current St. Louis Blues VP Peter Chiarelli. In grad school he played varsity hockey for Oxford (UK)

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Facebook just fed this ad to me LOL

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the Carolina Hurricanes deadline day trade of Mikko Rantanen for Gordie, Mark and Matt Howe is a net plus for the @Canes

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The Mikko Rantanen era for the Carolina Hurricanes is over - today is day 1 of the Logan Stankoven era

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on #ncga staff I’d get an occasional call from ProTem Mark Basnight to come to his office, which always worried me. Recounting a 2010 meeting: BASNIGHT: Give me an idea how to cut the Senate budget 4% COHEN: Reduce the Senate from 50 to 48 BASNIGHT: Can I choose the two to go? COHEN: Why not. #ncpol

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just elected to the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Election Board Association from District 6 at a district meeting in Smithfield this afternoon (District 6 is 11 counties including Wake) eba-nc.org #ncpol

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Single ticket for sale for Lenovo Center @Canes /Bruins NHL game 7pm Thurs Mar 6, Sec 113 Row W seat 7, lower level corner in end zone. Asking $130. Premier parking also available for $30 to ticket buyer. Will take VENMO or ZELLE. Reply or DM

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at LenovoCenter with Pam for Carolina Hurricanes vs Calgary Flames this evening

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NC candidate filing for 2025 and 2026 elections is getting closer. Filing for 2025 municipals starts in 4 months, runs July 7-18, 2025; filing for 2026 partisan elections and Raleigh mayor/council starts in 9 months, runs Dec 1-19, 2025. Wake County filing info: www.wake.gov/departments-... #ncpol

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easiest path for NCSU to make the ACC men’s basketball tournament is if 3 higher-ranked ACC schools pay their $50m exit fee next week and leave the ACC before the regular season ends

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for those upset that KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) is moving to Texas, remember that Texas Pete Hot Sauce isn’t based or have anything to do with Texas

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#ncga State of the State speech if Weds Mar 12 7pm is may be head to head with UNC Chapel Hill MBB second round ACC tournament game in Charlotte. Heels currently 6th place, would play that night at 9:30, if 7th play at 7pm. Has State of the State ever been during tourney games?

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Just realized that today starts my 7th year on the Wake County Board of Elections (appointed Feb 19, 2019, reappointed to second and third terms in 2021 and 2023 — current term ends June 24, 2025) #ncpol

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Set your calendars, including a 15-minute alert

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www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025... Chapel Hill Transit hosts discussion on its connection with civil rights - (nice ⁦‪@dailytarheel‬⁩ article on a forum in Chapel Hill where I spoke as a “former Chapel Hill Town Council member”, which I was 1973-79)

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#ncsbe has now examined the original voter registration applications of 62,027 voters protested for "incomplete registrations" and found 31,167 in fact were complete with all required info. /1 #ncpol drive.google.com/file/d/1ZMdv...

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Army Captain Rebecca Lobach, one of three who perished in the Blackhawk helicopter crash Wednesday, is on the list protested in the 2024 NC Supreme Court race on the grounds she did not provide an ID with her military absentee ballot. #ncpol assets.nationbuilder.com/ncgop/mailin...

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Reyna Walters-Morgan (UNC student body prez 1998-99) was elected today vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee. Reyna did early work in ‘99 on combining the 5 campus precincts into one, that finally happened in 2019. She also worked successfully getting a campus early voting site in ‘04

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Next election cycle: 5 months til July 7-18, 2025 candidate filing for 2025 municipal elections, 10 months until December 1-19, 2025 filing for 2026 partisan offices and cities with 2026 non-partisan primaries (Raleigh, Asheville and Mt Airy) Wake Co filing info: www.wake.gov/departments-... #ncpol

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Durham city council has on Monday agenda a 150+ acre annexation, mostly in Orange Co, with 1,000 proposed housing units. This will be first Durham city annexation in Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District. Durham city has 2 prior small annexations in Orange. cityordinances.durhamnc.gov/OnBaseAgenda...

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Just found out that my sister’s niece Sara Diamond was nominated for a Grammy for best R&B song. Awards show is Sunday night Feb 2 (Sara is a Montreal native as is my brother-in-law) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Di...

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I have 2 tickets to tonight’s 7pm Thurs Jan 23 Canes/BlueJackets NHL game at LenovoCenter (StarWars night), 1st row upper level at the blue line, Sec 304A Seats 1 and 2, I paid $86 each, will sell for $35 each. Reply or DM. Also have premier parking for $24 (I paid $33). Pay VENMO/ZELLE

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