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How do you vote if you live in a nursing home? It can be complicated.

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How do you vote if you live in a nursing home? It can be complicated. - North Carolina Health News

An octogenarian’s story shows the many obstacles to voting in long-term care facilities in 2020.

By Rose Hoban At 84, Jay Leavitt has been voting for about six and a half decades. Despite being quadriplegic, he’s politically active and astute and knows many of the candidates near his home in Polk County. “Just before I went into the hospital, in February, I went to a meet the candidates’ event, and […]

We see Zion Lemelle's manicured hands holding up a "You Can Vote" eligibility checklist card.

Getting out the vote in jail, during a pandemic

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Getting out the vote in jail, during a pandemic - North Carolina Health News

How do you safely ensure incarcerated people’s right to vote during a pandemic?

By Hannah Critchfield In the autumn of a normal election year, Zion Lemelle would gather the requisite voter registration forms and absentee ballot requests and don her orange “You Can Vote” t-shirt. Then she would head into a room full of inmates inside the Mecklenburg County jail, North Carolina’s largest. Of course, this year is […]

Shows the brightly colored "windseeker" ride at Carowinds, where red seats suspended from a blue column swirl high in the air.

Coronavirus Today – Sep 30 Bars, movie theaters, amusement parks reopening; NC stable but warning signs of spikes; Swing state with COVID-19

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Coronavirus Today – Sep 30 Bars, movie theaters, amusement parks reopening; NC stable but warning signs of spikes; Swing state with COVID-19 - North Carolina Health News

Gov. Roy Cooper turned the ‘dimmer switch’ another notch to reopen bars, theaters, amusement parks at limited capacity.

By Anne Blythe North Carolinians will be able to return to bars with outdoor seating, movie theaters, outdoor amusement parks, sports stadiums and other entertainment venues after Friday, with some limitations, thanks to the coronavirus. Gov. Roy Cooper told reporters on Wednesday that North Carolina’s COVID-19 trends and metrics are stable enough to move into […]

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