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Tuesday, May 2, is party primary day in
North Carolina, and voters will be asked
to select some of the candidates for
November’s general election.
Voters in Wake Forest’s
precinct 19-03 at the Wake Forest-Rolesville
High School will be marking their
ballots in a new location because of
construction at the school. The voting
has been in the gym lobby, but on
Tuesday voters will go through the gates
at Trentini Stadium, up the driveway
toward the press box and into a nearby
building. There will be lots of signs.
Chief precinct judge Guylene
Stroud said she likes the new location
better because handicapped people can
drive almost to the front door.
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. |
