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The Chapel Hill races worth texting before you vote
House 56 is Buansi and Clements. Senate 23 is Garson and Pichardo. The 4th District is Foushee, Ganorkar, and Meilleur. Your own ballot is the state board’s, not this list.
Send this to the person who asks what is actually on the ballot. Chapelboro’s October 16 introductions name two contested General Assembly races that cover Chapel Hill. N.C. House District 56 is the town limits of Chapel Hill and Carrboro: two-term Democratic Rep. Allen Buansi, and Libertarian Matthew Clements. N.C. Senate District 23 is all of Orange, Person, and Caswell: Chapel Hill Democrat Jonah Garson, and Republican Laura Pichardo of Caswell County. The same piece says the Senate incumbent is not on the ballot. Former Sen. Graig Meyer left the seat after the March primary for a role at the North Carolina Justice Center.
The U.S. House race Chapelboro introduced on October 13 is District 4. Democrat Valerie Foushee is seeking a third term. Republican Mahesh (Max) Ganorkar and Libertarian Guy Meilleur had no primary. This page does not describe Durham’s state House seats. A Durham ballot can differ. The check is the State Board of Elections voter search, which shows the sample ballot for an address.
What they say they would do is narrower than a vibe. The News & Observer’s September 28 questionnaire, in the paper’s own summary, says Foushee wants Medicare for All and to stop drug-price gouging, Ganorkar put government spending first and backed need-based budgeting, and Meilleur called artificial general intelligence a threat and said Congress should set guardrails. The same questionnaire lists Foushee’s education as a B.A. in political science and African/Afro-American studies from UNC-Chapel Hill, and her work as retirement from the Chapel Hill Police Department as an administrative officer. It lists Ganorkar’s education as a master’s in business in international finance and marketing, and does not name the school on the lines used here. It lists Meilleur’s credentials as teaching in ecology, urban forestry, and related fields at Duke and N.C. State, among other courses. Their longer answers are on the N&O page and on Chapelboro’s introductions. This story does not add a position those pages do not print.
Statewide, the Charlotte Observer’s voter guide says the top of the ballot is the U.S. Senate, between Democratic nominee Roy Cooper and Republican Michael Whatley, plus Libertarian and Green nominees. One poll, not a forecast: Carolina Journal, September 13–15, 608 likely North Carolina voters, Cooper 49.2 percent, Whatley 34.1, Bray 2.9, Dublin 1.5, undecided 12.3. That is one September sample. Election Day in the Observer guide is November 3.
Hours and sites are separate notes. Orange’s Sunday window is noon to 5. Durham’s is 2 to 6, and Durham says a voter there may use any of its ten sites. Orange’s page does not say that. A permit, a poll, and a candidate’s sentence are three different things. None of them is a result.
- WhenEarly voting is open. Election Day is Nov. 3.
- WhereA voter’s own sample ballot. This note is not a polling place.
- FeeThe elections pages do not list a fee.
Chapel Hill ballot: NC House 56, Buansi vs. Clements. NC Senate 23, Garson vs. Pichardo. US House NC-04, Foushee, Ganorkar, Meilleur. Sample ballot is the State Board of Elections voter search.
Source: Chapelboro, General Assembly introductions, October 16 · Chapelboro, NC-04 introductions, October 13 · News & Observer questionnaire, September 28 · Charlotte Observer voter guide · Carolina Journal poll write-up · State Board of Elections