Information Mainly for Precinct 19-19 Voters

Last Updated:   10/23/20  13:11

What happened to precinct 19-10?:  Hopefully this is now old news to most voters, but if you are unaware of the 2017 division of old precinct 19-10 into precincts 19-19 and 19-18 with possibly a new polling place for you, see the precinct division section below. Everyone needs to know in which precinct they are now registered and go to vote in the polling place for that precinct. That is where their pollbook data is located; it is not in the pollbooks at any other polling place on Election Day.

Upcoming election:  The next election for precincts 19-19 and 19-18 will be a general election on 11/3/2020. Information about it is posted on the Wake County Board of Elections (WCBOE) Upcoming Election Information web page, which will be updated as election day approaches. The political party with which you are affiliated does not matter for this election; your party affiliation does not determine the ballot you will receive. Everyone in Precincts 19-19 and 19-18 will get exactly the same ballot. You can view your registration information as described below.  Updated: 7/15/20

Consider volunteering to be a precinct official for this and future elections.

COVID-19 pandemic considerations:  Some information about COVID-19 considerations for this election is in my Current Election web page.  Updated: 9/12/20

Getting registration and ballot information:  You can easily check your voter registration information, including your currently recorded name, address, party, precinct, polling place, and municipality (if any). You will also see the voting jurisdictions you are in, e.g., NC House, Wake County Commissioner, and School (Board of Education). Normally a month or more before Election Day you can view the exact ballot(s) that will be available to you for that election. Always keep your voter registration data up-to-date, e.g., if you move. Of course, if you have not already done so, please register to vote! You can register as described in the how to update section below.

Mail-in absentee ballots and early voting sites:  If you will not be able to vote at your polling place on Election Day or just choose to vote early, you can either submit an absentee ballot or vote at an early voting site before Election Day.

For this election, a nearby early voting site is the Wake County Northern Regional Center in Wake Forest. However because of space limitations in that voting booth room, apparently relatively few booths can be set up to meet the required COVID-19 six-foot spacing. This can cause long wait times. The WCBOE now has an estimated wait times web page covering all the early voting sites.  Updated: 7/23/20

People have reported much shorter wait times at the Wake Tech North Campus, Building K. Building K is just east of Perry Creek Road, which is probably the best way to get there. Building K is off the left (east) side of Perry Creek Road, about 0.6 miles from the US 401 intersection. A detailed site map shows the building and parking areas (scroll to the bottom of the page). There are many nearby WCBOE signs to guide you.   Updated: 7/23/20

Maps and pictures: The following items focus on precinct 19-19 since its voters now must go to this new (as of 2017) polling place. In 2019 they extended Granite Falls Boulevard to cross Rogers Road and placed many overhead traffic signals at that intersection; that should make this turn much easier to find.

• Precinct 19-19 overview, an edited map from the WCBOE showing how precinct 19-19 relates to surrounding precincts. It also shows the 19-19 and other nearby polling place locations.
  Note:  If you want a more detailed map, try the very useful iMAPS tool described below. You can focus on an area to clearly show all its streets with their names, as well as highlighting things like municipal corporate boundaries and voting precincts.
• Locator map for the 19-19 polling place, Sanford Creek Elementary School.
• Helpful pictures of Sanford Creek Elementary School. These were provided by the WCBOE.
• Sign placement to direct people to the 19-19 polling place.
• Traffic flow diagram for Sanford Creek Elementary School parking areas.
• Diagram for curbside and accessible parking areas in front of the voting enclosure.   Updated: 8/21/20
• Voting enclosure layout for the 19-19 polling place using three Registration Table lines.   Updated: 10/19/20
• Route between 19-18 and 19-19 polling places in case a voter initially goes to the wrong one.
• Intersection of regions showing how voting precincts and municipal corporate regions overlap.
• Find Your Legislators is a North Carolina General Assembly tool which displays voting jurisdictions such as US House, NC Senate, and NC House districts. You can zoom down to a street address to see boundaries at a very detailed level across the whole state. You can choose to display maps showing the current boundaries (i.e., before the latest redistricting) or the boundaries that apply to the 2020 election, e.g., the changes made to Congressional districts 2 and 4, which significantly affect northern Wake County. Try clicking on "My Address", enter your address, then click the buttons for US House and 2020 Elections to see what applies for the 11/3/2020 election.  Updated: 7/15/20

How to check your voter registration information:  When certain changes occur, such as when precinct 19-10 was divided into 19-18 and 19-19 or if you have updated your registration information with the Wake County Board of Elections (WCBOE), e.g., after a move, the WCBOE mails an updated voter card to each affected voter. That card lists your (possibly changed) polling place and your voting jurisdiction information, including your municipality, e.g., Wake Forest or Rolesville or unincorporated, as well as your name, address, and party affiliation. You can also see your current registration information, e.g., by clicking on "Am I Registered?" on the WCBOE website.

How to view a sample ballot appropriate for you:  The "Am I Registered" facility mentioned above also lets you view images of the ballot(s) applicable to you in the upcoming election. These images are usually made available a month or more before the election. Each image exactly duplicates what you would see on the associated hardcopy ballot. Viewing your ballot before the election lets you vote more quickly on Election Day.

To view what ballot(s) may apply for you, enter your identification data for "Am I Registered" (see above). When your registration data is displayed, scroll down to the "Sample Ballots" section and click on the link for the ballot style you wish to view, e.g, G057. An Unaffiliated voter may see several possible ballot styles for a partisan primary election. All can be viewed here; however when actually voting later, the Unaffiliated voter must chose just one of these styles. In contrast, for partisan voters in a partisan primary election or for all voters in a general or municipal election, only one sample ballot style will be displayed for each voter.

North Carolina now has five political parties: Constitution, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, and Republican. The Constitution and Green parties run "closed" primaries, meaning the only voters who can vote in their primaries are those explicitly registered as affiliated with their party. In particular, Unaffiliated voters cannot choose to vote in the Constitution and Green primary elections. As in past years an Unaffiliated voter can still choose to vote in a Democratic, Libertarian, or Republican primary and only those ballot styles will be listed for the Unaffiliated voter as sample ballots (see above) and on the voter's Authorization To Vote form for a primary election.

For a general election, vs. a partisan primary election, your party affiliation is ignored. If a precinct does not have any split jurisdictions, as is the case for precincts 19-19 and 19-18, all voters in those precincts will receive exactly the same ballot in a general election.   Updated: 3/12/20

How to update your voter registration information:  If you haven't yet registered, you must do so by a specific date for the election in which you wish to vote; this deadline will be posted on the WCBOE website. Don't put it off to the last minute. If you have moved or changed your name after you previously registered, please notify the WCBOE to get your registration updated. Doing that early will make things go much faster and more smoothly for you on Election Day. All this registering and updating can be done with this form and instructions found on the WCBOE website. Clicking on either "Register To Vote" or "Change my Address/Name" on the website will bring up the form which you then complete, print, and mail. You can now also register or update your registration information thru the DMV Online Voter Registration portal. Once your first-time or updated registration has been processed, the WCBOE will mail you a new voter card.   Updated: 9/17/20

Please wait at the Tabulator to see your ballot's status:  Our new model Tabulator worked very well in the preceding elections. However there is one thing we want to emphasize to voters: After entering your ballot into the Tabulator slot, PLEASE WAIT the few seconds until the display shows whether the ballot was accepted or rejected. If you don't wait and just hurry out the door, we have to try to chase you down if the Tabulator has detected an error after you ran, e.g., if you marked too many entries in one or more contests.  Updated: 9/12/20

If you select too many in a contest, until we bring you back to say how you want to proceed, no one else can cast their ballot. The voter line is held up until you are available to say whether you want the Tabulator to ignore the extra-marked contest(s) or instead have us give you a new ballot to fill out all over again. All this goes much faster if we don't have to chase you. If we can't catch you, we have no choice but to tell the Tabulator to ignore all the extra-marked contest(s) on your ballot so it can be read in, thus allowing the other (patiently waiting) voters to now cast their ballots.  Updated: 9/12/20

Even worse, your ballot may be rejected by the Tabulator if you mismarked it using X's, or checkmarks, or smiley faces, or red ink, or something else, instead of just filling out the ovals with the supplied black ink pens, per the instructions. Such an invalid ballot can cause a real mess if you can't be chased down. Please just wait to see your ballot's status.  Updated: 9/12/20

Special considerations for the 19-19 polling place:  Below are several things 19-19 voters will need to consider about Sanford Creek Elementary School. The six WCBOE pictures illustrate some of these points.

• Use the correct entrance to get to the voter parking area. See the 19-19 polling place map.

  If you enter Granite Falls Blvd. from Rogers Rd., the first school entrance you encounter (the one on the west side of the school property) is ONLY for school buses. We'll have signs warning people that this is NOT an entrance for voters. The correct entrance (the one on the east side) is about 1/4 mile further along. It leads to a large parking area in front of the school.

  Similarly, if you enter Granite Falls Blvd. from W. Young St., do not turn at the first road you encounter on the left. That leads to some private businesses, not the school. The school entrance is the second road on the left. There is a large stone sign by it for Sanford Creek Elementary School.

• Unfortunately the correct entrance is the one used by "carpool" parents to drop off and pick up their kids. If you try to drive in at certain times, you may find yourself involved with a long, slow line of such cars; this may make it difficult to get into or out of a parking place. Try to avoid the "carpool" times. The latest information from the school for this Election Day is listed below.
  The Wake County Public School System has declared 11/3/20 to be a teacher workday.
  For *THIS* election, there should be no morning and afternoon "carpool" lines to avoid.  

  Updated: 7/15/20

  No matter when you arrive, always follow the signs and watch out for cones which may require you to wind around the parking area; don't try to take a shortcut. Be very careful if you use the narrow passing lane to go beside the "carpool" line.

  If you do arrive at the wrong time, a way to avoid the "carpool" line is to use one of the two gravel parking lots adjacent to the school, just off Scarboro St.  See the Alternate Parking Lot signs on the sign placement diagram. There is a small, grassy hill between the larger lot and the school. Since there is no sidewalk or other prepared pathway over that hill, walk carefully, especially if the grass is wet. These gravel lots are normally used for the Town of Rolesville's Main Street Park. The Town has given the WCBOE permission to use them for voter parking.

• The voting enclosure (the room where you vote) is the school's Media Center. The entrance for it is on the left side of the building's front, hiding around a corner. Don't try to use the building's main entrance, which is toward the right. We'll have signs to steer you to the Media Center entrance.
• For exit from the Media Center, use only the side door you used for entry. Do not try to exit by the rear door into the main school building. We'll probably have that inside door partially blocked in some way -- to be used only as an emergency exit.
• For those needing curbside assistance, i.e., people physically unable to come inside to vote, the curbside parking area will be at the building's front, near the Media Center entrance. The accessible parking area is there as well. These parking places may not be too visible when you first enter the school's parking lot (there's a lot of winding around to get there), but we'll have signs.

  For people needing curbside or accessible parking facilities, it is strongly advised that they NOT come to vote anywhere close to the school's "carpool" times noted above. Navigating around the "carpool" line to reach the special parking areas can be confusing and difficult. At other times (i.e., no "carpool" line), it is much easier -- just follow the pavement arrows and our vote direction signs to get to the curbside or accessible parking areas.

  Cars needing this special parking should go completely around the loop by the building's entrance. See the traffic flow and curbside/accessible diagrams. This ensures curbside-parking cars will be properly oriented at the curbside doorbell stand. This orientation also provides easy exit from curbside parking back into the "carpool" traffic flow.   Updated: 9/12/20

Precinct division done in 2017:  Voting precinct 19-10, which had used the Jones Dairy Elementary School as its polling place, grew large enough that it needed to be divided in two by the Wake County Board of Elections (WCBOE). This change was made in 2017. Precinct 19-10 no longer exists. The part of old 19-10 north of Chalk Road is now the new 19-18 precinct; it will still have Jones Dairy Elementary as its polling place. However all the rest of old 19-10 is now the new 19-19 precinct and will have as its polling place Sanford Creek Elementary School at 701 Granite Falls Blvd. in Rolesville. See the precinct 19-19 overview map; there are other maps and pictures in a section above.   Updated: 9/12/20

Please pass on the above information to your neighbors in case they may be unaware of the precinct changes.

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