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Workers aim to keep election fair and legal
CHAPEL HILL -- Tens of thousands of people will show up at polling places in Orange and Chatham counties on November 4 and not all of them will be there to vote.

Perdue makes pitch for state's top job
DURHAM -- Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue, bringing her campaign for governor to Durham on Friday, said she doesn't believe motorists "should be able to" exchange electronic text messages while driving, but she stopped short of calling for a state law to make it illegal.


Durham County Board of Elections	Orange County Board of Elections
Person County Board of Elections	Granville County Board of Elections
Chatham County Board of Elections	North Carolina Board of Elections
Kids Voting Durham

•	Orange voters' turnout strong
	CHAPEL HILL -- On Friday morning, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp, Student Body President J.J. Raynor and Sylvia Hatchell, coach of the Tar Heel women's basketball team, held a brief press conference outside Morehead Planetarium encouraging early voting.

•	Durham's plate divided on meals tax
	DURHAM -- A once-in-a-generation chance to fund culture and recreation in Durham County. The wrong tax at the wrong time.

•	Religion's role in vote debated
	DURHAM -- Neither presidential campaign has given attention to Muslims at all, except to distance themselves, Duke University professor Jen'nan Ghazal Read said about Muslim Americans and the 2008 election.

•	Palin fires up crowd at Elon
	ELON -- With students wearing game paint from the waist up and Hank Williams Jr.'s Monday Night Football standard "All My Rowdy Friends (Are Coming Over Tonight)" playing in the background, a Republican campaign rally at Elon University might have looked like a football game.

•	Record turnout marks first day of general election early voting
	DURHAM -- Record turnout was recorded here Thursday for the first day of an early voting period, according to Durham Board of Elections Director Mike Ashe.

•	Media coverage part of rally's focus
	ELON -- The unofficial consensus at the Republican presidential campaign rally here Thursday was that many people are tired of the "liberal media."

•	Let the Early One-Stop voting begin
	CHAPEL HILL -- Early One-Stop voting began at 9 a.m. Thursday morning at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, and at 7:15 a.m., five voters were already waiting in line.

•	Gerding concedes judgeship to Vernon
	CHAPEL HILL -- Glenn Gerding, a Chapel Hill attorney who was running for district court judge in Orange and Chatham counties, has conceded the race to Page Vernon, the candidate who beat him soundly in the primary.

•	Vote early -- but not often -- this year
	DURHAM -- As local officials gear up for a record-setting election, a handful of political figures took a few hours Friday to look at the seven sites where Durhamites will be able to vote beginning Oct. 16.

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