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Voting & Coronavirus

Voting and Coronavirus

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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

Close-up of hands at a hand sanitizer station.

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

10 Facts About Voting in NC During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Find out how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact your voting experience.

Polling Place Changes/Office Closures

Please check back. We will post this information as soon as we receive it. 

State Board of Elections Chair Damon Circosta Discusses Voting During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Supporting Documents

Numbered Memos

These memos are related to COVID-19. You may access other memos on our Numbered Memos page.

Memo
Number
Date From Re Link
2020-18 August 14, 2020 Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director DHHS Interim Guidance for Election Voting Locations PDF
2020-17 August 14, 2020 Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director Office Operations During Pandemic PDF
2020-15 July 28, 2020 Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director Absentee Requests Forms PDF
2020-14 July 23, 2020 Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director Emergency Order of July 17, 2020 PDF
2020-13 June 24, 2020 Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director One-Stop Planning for the 2020 General Election PDF
2020-12 June 1, 2020 Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director COVID-19 Response Planning for In-Person Voting for June 23, 2020 election PDF
2020-11 March 15, 2020 Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response PDF
2020-10 March 11, 2020 Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director Second Primary Preparations PDF
Press Releases

See a filtered view of press releases related to COVID-19.

Other Legal Resources
  • CARES Act Request/Recommendations
  • Karen Brinson Bell on the State Board Response
External Resources
  • NCDHHS Provides Guidelines for Voters and Polling Locations as Early Voting Begins

  • U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Coronavirus Resources

  • Important Coronavirus Information provided by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services

  • CDC’s Interim Guidance for Election Polling Locations

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  • Your Voter Record
  • Vote by Mail
  • Vote Early in Person
  • Vote in Person on Election Day
  • Voting & Coronavirus
    • 10 Facts About Voting in North Carolina During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Voter Tools & Forms
  • Voter ID
  • Help for Voters with Disabilities
  • Provisional Voting
  • Voting Equipment
  • Vote in Honor of a Veteran

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