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Wake Board of Elections Offers One-Stop Sites, Early Voting, Absentee by Mail Options


4/18/2008

Wake County will operate only one one-stop voting site, until Saturday, April 26, 2008, The site will be at the Board of Elections Office, 337 S. Salisbury St., Raleigh. This site will be open:

  • Monday, April 17-Friday, May 2, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
  • Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
  • Sunday, April 27, 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
  • Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Eight additional one-stop voting sites will open on Saturday, April 26, 2008, at 10 a.m. All sites will be open:

  • Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
  • Sunday, April 27, 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
  • Monday, April 28-Friday, May 2, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
  • Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

ONE-STOP SITE

ADDRESS

Chavis Community Center

505 Martin Luther King Blvd., Raleigh

East Regional Library

946 Steeple Square Court, Knightdale

Herbert C. Young Community Center

101 Wilkinson Ave., Cary

Heritage of Raleigh Independent Living Retirement Community

1200 Carlos Drive, Raleigh

Pullen Arts Center

105 Pullen Road, Raleigh

Wake Forest Community House

133 W. Owen St., Wake Forest

Wake Technical Community College Main Campus

9101 Fayetteville Road, Raleigh

W.E. Hunt Community Center and Gym

301 Stinson Ave., Holly Springs

Unaffiliated voters must state the political party primary in which they choose to vote.

ABSENTEE BY MAIL

Wake County voters have until April 29, 2008, to request an absentee ballot by mail from the Board of Elections. Absentee ballot requests should include:

  1. Name
  2. Address
  3. Voter's Wake County residence address and address where the ballot is to be mailed.
  4. Party affiliation (for primary elections)
  5. Date of birth
  6. Telephone number
  7. Signature

Requests should be mailed to:

Wake County Board of Elections
Attn: Absentee
PO Box 695
Raleigh, NC 27602

The voter or the voter's near relative must send a signed written request to the Wake County Board of Elections office beginning 50 days prior to Election Day. Written requests must be received in the office no later than the Tuesday prior to Election Day and must include the voter or the voter’s near relative’s name, residence address and relationship.

Ballots will be mailed within one to two days after receipt of the written request. In order to be counted, the voted ballot must be received in the Board of Elections office by 5 p.m. on the day before the election.

A near relative, as defined by law, is a spouse, brother, sister, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, stepparent, stepchild or verifiable legal guardian. Power of attorney is not acceptable as a near relative.

Please Note: NCGS 163-230.2 states that a written request for an absentee ballot by mail is valid only if it is written entirely by the requester personally, or is on a form generated by the county Board of Elections and signed by the requester.



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