LIVE BLOG: North Carolina District 64 race
Businessman and Democrat Eric Henry and Republican State Representative Dennis Riddell are competing for the 64th District’s seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Businessman and Democrat Eric Henry and Republican State Representative Dennis Riddell are competing for the 64th District’s seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Updates from the Alamance County Board of Commissioner candidates as they speak with Elon News Network on election night.
Hundreds of marchers came to Graham to march to a polling site on Election Day. This march followed the “I Am Change: Legacy March to The Polls,” which was cut short after police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd and multiple people were arrested.
Democrat Ricky Hurtado is facing off against Republican incumbent Stephen Ross for a seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Elon University students historically have had lower political participation. The Princeton Review ranked Elon six in the country for colleges with the least-politically active students, based on students’ ratings of their own political awareness. Since August 2020, 32% of Elon students have registered for the first time with Elon Votes.
As of Nov. 3, North Carolina had 7.3 million registered voters, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections website. NCSBE said it anticipates that the results reported by the end of election night will include 97% or more of all ballots cast in North Carolina in the 2020 general election. Some Alamance County voters opted to vote in-person on Election Day.
East Haggard Avenue will be closed on election night until Nov. 5 for an art project that will take place on the road. Elon University applied for a special events request for the closure of the road. This request was approved the day before the road was expected to close.
One of the defining political issues for Hispanic conservative voters is economic policy. A coalition of Hispanic Republicans is working to elect conservative candidates and to get Hispanic people elected to office.
Following the march to the polls in Graham on Oct. 31 that abruptly ended after a clash with law enforcement, march organizer Rev. Gregory Drumwright has a lawsuit filed on his behalf against Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson and Graham Police Department Chief of Police Kristy Cole.
On Election Day, students will have the chance to take the BioBus — which will be running on loops all day — to voting centers. In addition to this option, they can drive or walk themselves to their polling place.
Students who are registered to vote in North Carolina and plan on casting a ballot in-person on Election Day need to know a few details before they head to voting booths.
Only single-use containers are being used on campus this semester, as well as in the dining halls, as an effort to minimize the risk of transmitting COVID-19. Post-consumer compostable waste, such as used to-go boxes, is not currently being composted this fall semester due to challenges coming from COVID-19, according to the Elon sustainability website.
Following a march to the polls that ended abruptly after law enforcement clashed with peaceful protesters, both Graham Police Department and the Rev. Greg Drumwright, organizer of the march, held dueling press conferences where they addressed what happened at the march in Graham.
Two Elon University students, along with other marchers, are out of police custody after being arrested during a march for voting rights and justice.The event was civil until members of law enforcement began pepper spraying marchers. Members of the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office and Graham Police Department were present on scene.
A march for voting rights and racial justice in Graham — that was headed to an early voting location — was dispersed after a clash with law enforcement. Law enforcement used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd that was gathered in front of the Alamance County courthouse.
Voters in Alamance County have lined up at the polls for early voting at the county's five locations. Adrianne Mowry has been at Holly Hill Mall encouraging voters to vote for the Green Party while Sadie Howard-Stanfield has been working at polls for over 30 years and his currently the Democratic precint chair at the Elmira Community Chair.
Elon University has announced that classes for the upcoming Winter Term and spring semester will be conducted in-person or hybrid and will require pre-semester COVID-19 testing before students, faculty and staff return to campus.
Within the past two weeks, ten clusters have been identified by the Alamance County Health Department amongst Elon University students. Clusters of COVID-19 cases have been popping up in residence halls and greek organizations across campus. Seven fraternities and sororities and three freshman dorms all have had clusters.
Since starting expanded testing of 5,000 Elon University students due to a record high number of COVID-19 cases on campus, over 1,800 test results have been returned, according to an email to the Elon community from Jeff Stein, chair of the Ready & Resilient committee.
Despite the campus wide power outage at Elon University’s coronavirus testing is still up and running in Alumni Gym. According to Brett Simon, assistant director of campus recreation and wellness for sport programs, COVID-19 testing will continue as planned for the remainder of the day, despite Alumni Gym currently being without power.