Poll workers and voters in western North Carolina are overcoming several obstacles to participate in the election after Hurricane Helene's destruction in the region. Election workers' extraordinary efforts to hold elections have been on full display in Buncombe and Madison counties as the towns there recover from the storm.
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Here are some key takeaways from early voting preparation and voter perspectives in two western North Carolina counties.A few of western North Carolina’s 80 early voting sites couldn’t open after the storm. One of them was the Hot Springs Community Center in Madison County, which was ruined by flooding.
But Ray said the election work is going well so far, given the destruction in downtown Hot Springs and Marshall, two of the county’s central towns. All of the county’s poll workers, about 70 of them, are still scheduled and available to work through the election, he said.In Hot Springs, a town of about 500 people, the early voting polling place’s lead, Dean Benfield, said they had a “big day,” with more than 50 voters casting ballots.
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