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The Wake Forest residents who vote at
Wake Forest-Rolesville High School in
precinct 19-03 will not cast their
ballots in the gym lobby as they have
been doing. Instead, for the May 2 party
primary they will be directed to enter
the gates at Trentini Stadium, go up the
driveway toward the press box and go
into the nearby building to find the
election officials and voting machines.
“My handicapped people can
drive almost up to the front door,”
Guylene Stroud, the chief precinct judge
said. She said it will work out almost
better than the gym lobby because of the
accessibility. Stroud said the building
they will use is called the 800 building
and is white with a blue roof.
The change had to be made
because of the construction at the high
school.
Local voters – will find few
contests.
The most controversial
locally will be in the Republican race
for the District 40 seat for the North
Carolina House of Representatives where
Marilyn Avila is challenging six-term
Rep. Rick L. Eddins. Both live in
Raleigh. There are no Democratic
candidates for the seat, so the primary
winner is assured election.
There is also a hotly
contested Republican race in
Congressional District 13 with three
candidates – John Ross Hendrix of Cary,
Vernon Robinson of Winston-Salem and
Charlie Sutherland of Mayodan – vying
for the chance to face first-term
Congressman Brad Miller in the fall.
Democratic voters will be
asked to choose between Nancy Lorrin
Freeman and Mark Perry, both of Raleigh,
as the candidate to challenge incumbent
Republican Janet Pueschel for Wake
County Clerk of Superior Court.
Republican voters will
choose between two candidates for the
District 3 seat on the Wake County Board
of Commissioners, incumbent Tony Gurley
and challenger Michael J. Luther. The
other contests for seats on the county
commission will be settled in the
November general election. |
