Voting and Coronavirus

Your Vote and Safety Count

Your state and county elections officials have been hard at work to make voting as accessible and safe as possible for North Carolina’s more than 7 million registered voters. New laws, processes and safeguards will be in place to protect your health and ensure your vote counts on Election Day.

Choose the Best Voting Option for You

Three voting options are always available to registered voters:

• Absentee voting by-mail
• Voting at one-stop early voting sites across your county
• Election Day voting at your assigned polling place

Safeguards in Place

Significant precautions will be made at voting sites to protect voters and election officials against the transmission of COVID-19. These include:

• Enforcing social distancing at polling places and early voting sites
• Providing hand sanitizer and masks for voters and election workers who do not bring their own
• Providing gloves and face shields for election workers
• Erecting barriers between election workers and voters at check-in tables
• Providing single-use pens in counties that use hand-marked paper ballots, and a cotton swab or disposable stylus for voters who use ballot-marking devices
• Frequently cleaning surfaces and equipment in polling places and early voting sites
• Recruiting poll workers who are less vulnerable to the virus