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So it begins to limit access in this election.

I have lived in downtown Raleigh since March 2018 and have early voted at the Wake County Office Building just a few blocks from my apartment at every election since I've lived here. The Wake County Office Building is NOT an early voting site for the General Election!

I lived in Orange County, NC (Chapel Hill) for 17 years before moving to Wake County and I'm aware that the OC Board of Elections office in Hillsborough was also always an early voting site. Guess what? Not this year.

I only had to walk 4 blocks to the Wake County Office Building from my apartment. Took me about 5-6 minutes. The closest early voting site now is a 25 minute walk, according to Google. It will mean people who are living downtown will have to either take a bus, drive, get a ride, or walk much farther in order to early vote or even drop off an absentee ballot at an early voting site.

I just sent an e-mail to the Wake County Democratic Party Executive Director inquiring whether they were aware of this development.

I think my next e-mail may be to local TV stations. And I just wrote a LTTE of the local paper, too.