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Mayor Abby Norton, League of Women Voters to host Hot Springs candidate forum

Norris Gentry, Madison County Commissioner, poses for a portrait outside of the Madison County Courthouse on February 23, 2022. Maya Carter/Asheville Citizen Times   By Johnny Casey, Asheville Citizen Times,…
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Buncombe County election officials run mock election ahead of November municipal polls

OCT. 5, 2023 – Buncombe County election officials performed a test run Thursday, Oct. 5, ahead of the upcoming municipal elections in November to make sure the equipment is running…
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Securing the vote: how North Carolina ensures absentee ballot integrity

By Jennifer Emert, WLOS, Thursday, September 28, 2023   ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Ballots are ready for the upcoming November municipal elections. With security concerns raised around the 2020 and…
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Buncombe County celebrates National Voter Registration Day with bilingual Facebook Lives

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Tuesday, September 19, 2023 Tuesday was National Voter Registration Day, and Buncombe County election officials did Facebook lives in English and Spanish, encouraging people to register.…
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Sept. 15 is the voter registration deadline for municipal elections

Since photo IDs will be required in municipal elections in North Carolina this year, the state Board of Elections is beginning the approval process for how university and college IDs…
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Juneteenth!

We’ll be at the Juneteenth Celebration – commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in 1865. Saturday and Sunday, June 17-18, 11:30 to 6 pm, at Pack Square

‘Test for American democracy’: SCOTUS hears oral arguments in NC elections case

Common Cause, a respondent in Moore v. Harper, joined a group of community organizers [including Suzanne Fisher, President of LWV Asheville-Buncombe] in Asheville on Wednesday to speak out against “Independent…
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