State Board of Elections staff will hold a random drawing at 5:15 p.m. Friday, September 3 to determine the order of candidates for certain ballot contests during the November 2021 elections.
The drawing will be streamed on Facebook Live on the State Board’s Facebook page. A news release will be sent out after the drawing is held.
Contests affected by the drawing include sanitary district and water district elections in several counties, board of education contests in several counties, and the Dosher Hospital Board of Trustees election in Brunswick County. See below for a full list of contests affected by the ballot order drawing.
Lists of candidates may be found on the State Board of Elections website: Candidate Lists.
The State Board is required to randomly determine the order of candidates on the ballot, according to N.C.G.S. § 163-165.6(c). The order will be determined by selecting a ball out of a bingo machine, with the letter on the ball corresponding with the first letter of a candidate’s last name. Candidates whose names start with the letter drawn will appear first on the ballot for their contest. A subsequent coin flip will determine whether additional candidates will follow in alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order.
This ballot order drawing does not affect the order of candidates for regular municipal elections, such as contests for mayor or town council. Under N.C.G.S. § 163-299(c), candidates’ names in those contests are listed in strict alphabetical order, unless the municipal governing body passes a resolution requesting that candidates’ names be rotated on ballots.
Brunswick County:
Brunswick Regional Water and Sewer H2G0 Commissioner
Dosher Hospital Board of Trustees
Southeast Brunswick Sanitary District Commissioner
Buncombe County:
Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sewer District Trustee
Burke County:
Burke County Board of Education Central District
Burke County Board of Education Eastern District
Burke County Board of Education Western District
Catawba County:
Hickory Public Schools Board of Education Ward 01
Hickory Public Schools Board of Education Ward 02
Hickory Public Schools Board of Education Ward 03
Hickory Public Schools Board of Education Ward 05
Newton-Conover Schools Board of Education Conover District
Newton-Conover Schools Board of Education Newton District
Chatham County:
Goldston Gulf Sanitary District Board Member
Cleveland County:
Cleveland County Water Board Commissioner
Cumberland County:
Eastover Sanitary District Board Members
Eastover Sanitary District Board Members (Unexpired Term)
Greene County:
Maury Sanitary Land District Board Member
Guilford County:
Sedgefield Sanitary District Board of Directors
Halifax County:
Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District Board of Directors
Roanoke Rapids Graded School Board of Education
Iredell County:
Mooresville Graded School Board of Education
Johnston County:
Whitley Heights Sanitary District Commissioners
Northampton County:
Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District Board of Directors
Orange County:
Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools Board of Education
Pitt County:
Candlewick Area Sanitary District Board
Randolph County:
Asheboro City Schools Board of Education
Wayne County:
Belfast-Patetown Sanitary District Board Member
Eastern Wayne Sanitary District Board Member
Fork Township Sanitary District Board Member
Southeastern Wayne Sanitary District Board Member
Southern Wayne Sanitary District Board Member
Southern Wayne Sanitary District Board Member (Unexpired Term)
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