Information Mainly for Precinct 19-24 Voters

Last Updated:   10/26/25  01:23         Jeffrey Knauth        jeff@jgkhome.name

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Upcoming election:  The next election for Precinct 19-24 will be a municipal election on 11/4/25. 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. It is important to know that this will be a municipal election. If you are in Precinct 19-24 but don't live within the corporate limits of either Wake Forest or Rolesville, then you are "unincorporated" and are not eligible to vote in this election. Unincorporated voters are not in the pollbooks for a municipal election. Your recorded municipality (Wake Forest, Rolesville, or Unincorporated) is part of the registration information you can view, as described in Getting registration and ballot information.

To vote normally in this election you must present a photo ID, e.g., an NC driver license. See voter photo ID for the eligible types of ID, associated expiration dates, exceptions, and other photo ID information. If you are voting in-person at an early voting site or at the polling place on Election Day, don't forget to bring your photo ID into the voting enclosure.

Information about the election will be posted on the Wake County Board of Elections (WCBOE) Upcoming Election Information web page, which will be updated as Election Day approaches.

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Know your precinct and polling place:  Everyone needs to know in which precinct you are now registered (see next section) and go to vote in the polling place for that precinct if you vote on Election Day. That is where your pollbook data is located; it is not in the pollbooks at any other polling place on Election Day. Keep your registration data up-to-date, e.g., if you move. The Election Day polling place for Precinct 19-24 is Hope Lutheran Church at 3525 Rogers Road in Wake Forest. See below for maps and pictures.

Getting registration and ballot information:  You can easily check your voter registration information, including your currently recorded name, residence address, party affiliation, 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 (you may need to scroll down to see the relevant early voting site information).

Unfortunately, none of the early voting sites for this election is close to our area. The closest is the Wake County Board of Elections Office at 1200 N. New Hope Road in Raleigh. Updated: 10/08/25

Do not wait until the last minute to request and then mail in an absentee ballot. If the ballot is received too late, e.g., because of USPS processing delays, the ballot will not be counted.

BallotTrax is an online facility that lets you track your status while going thru the absentee ballot process. If BallotTrax is available for the current election, it can be accessed after finding your voter registration information thru the "Voter Lookup" link on the WCBOE home page; the BallotTrax link is down at the end of the "YOUR BALLOT: BY MAIL OR EARLY VOTING" section. If you sign up via BallotTrax and then request an absentee ballot, BallotTrax will first report receipt of your absentee ballot request by the WCBOE and then report the mailing of the ballot package to you by the WCBOE. When you have completed the ballot package and mailed it back to the WCBOE, USPS will notify BallotTrax that it now has the package. BallotTrax will then report to you that USPS has the package and it is on the way to the WCBOE, then report when the package has arrived at the WCBOE, and finally report when the ballot has been accepted, i.e., you have now voted. If the WCBOE detects some problem with your ballot request or the information you returned with the ballot, e.g., a missing signature, the WCBOE will try to contact you.

How to check your voter registration information:  When certain changes occur, such as when a redistricting changes the jurisdictional areas you are in, or if your old voting precinct has been divided, 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 (possibly changed) voting jurisdiction information, including your municipality, e.g., Wake Forest, Rolesville, or Unincorporated, as well as your name, residence address, and party affiliation.

You can see your current registration information online by clicking on "Voter Lookup" near the top of the WCBOE home page. This links to the "Voter Search" page provided by the NC State BOE (NCSBE). The WCBOE website has a number of other paths to get to the NCSBE "Voter Search" page. In the following I'll just use "Voter Lookup" to cover all such paths.

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, under "Events" after some scrolling. 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 the online form and instructions found on the WCBOE website under "Voter Information". You use exactly the same form to do any of these:  register to vote, update your name, change your address, or change your party affiliation. Data can and probably should be entered into the online form (if your pdf reader allows you to do this) to reduce misreads of handwritten information. Then print the form, fill out any fields you could not do online, sign it, and mail it. 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.

Instead of mailing a registration form, unregistered voters can register at an early voting site. Also, at those sites currently registered voters can make some changes, e.g., you can change your registered name and your residence address. However you CANNOT change your party affiliation after the registration deadline has passed, even at an early voting site. You must submit a registration form (see above) to make a party change.
Updated: 10/16/25

How to view a sample ballot appropriate for you:  The "Voter Lookup" 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 which ballot(s) may apply for you, enter your identification data in "Voter Lookup" on the WCBOE home page. When your registration data is displayed, scroll down to the "Your Sample Ballot" section and click on the link for the ballot style you wish to view, e.g, N0009. If you see No eligible ballots instead of a ballot style, that means you are not eligible to vote in this election. For example, that will occur if this is a municipal election, but you don't live within the corporate limits of the municipality having the election. It can also occur if this is a partisan primary election, but your party has no contests in this election.

For a general election or a municipal election, party affiliations are ignored. They do matter in partisan primary elections.

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 choose 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 has a number of political parties, i.e., those recognized by the NC State Board of Elections as able to have candidates in an election. Which parties are currently recognized changes often. If you are registered as an affiliate of one of these parties, in a partisan primary election you can vote only for contests of that party (assuming there are any such contests). You are also restricted to that party if a "second primary" election is required because the primary election left some contests undecided.

In contrast, an Unaffiliated voter can choose a party for the partisan primary election and can then vote only for the contests of that party. If a second primary election is required, the Unaffiliated voter must stay with the party choice made for the primary. If no choice was made for the primary, the Unaffiliated voter can choose any party in the second primary. After the second primary election (or after the primary election if no second primary was required), the Unaffiliated voter's party choice is reset so the voter can now again choose any party in the next partisan election.

 

Wait at the Tabulator to see your ballot's status:  Our current model Tabulator has worked very well since being introduced in 2019. However there is one thing we want to emphasize to voters: After firmly sliding your ballot into the Tabulator slot, PLEASE WAIT the few seconds it takes 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.

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.

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 on the ballot. 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.

 

Maps and pictures: The items in this section focus on Precinct 19-24.

Be aware that the entrance to the Precinct 19-23 polling place, Heritage Middle School, is also on Rogers Road (south side) and is very close to the entrance to the 19-24 Hope Lutheran Church polling place on the north side of Rogers Road. Be sure to go to the right polling place.

• Precinct 19-24 overview, an edited WCBOE map showing how Precinct 19-24 relates to surrounding precincts.
• Precinct 19-24 polling place, a map of the area around Hope Lutheran Church.
• Parking areas, curbside, and the " Red Door", a zoomed-in view of the Hope Lutheran Church area.
• Pictures of Hope Lutheran Church, the polling place for Precinct 19-24.
• Voter path thru the Voting Enclosure shows three lines, but the path is essentially the same for two lines.
• Intersection of regions shows 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.

Special considerations for the 19-24 polling place:  Below are several things 19-24 voters will need to consider about the Hope Lutheran Church polling place.  Section updated: 10/18/25

• PARKING:  Hope Lutheran has a preschool for which parents drop off and pick up their children, ages two to five. The adults park their cars and escort their children to/from the buildings, walking thru the parking areas. This procedure will still take place on Election Day as on other days. This preschool is not part of the Wake County Public School System, so the WCPSS "Teacher workdays on Election Days" does not apply. No matter when you use the Hope Lutheran facilities, be very aware of this possible car and foot traffic.

  During these dropoff/pickup times, there can be competition between parents and voters for parking spaces as well as a lot of traffic on the narrow and twisting driveways. Voters should avoid coming to Hope Lutheran around these times. Currently the most active times are 8:15 to 8:45 and 12:00 to 1:00. In any case, it is best to park in the designated Voter Parking areas to give parents adequate places to park. See a big picture view and a zoomed-in view.

• DIFFICULT LEFT TURN:  If you take the Rogers Road exit from Hope Lutheran, it can be very difficult to make a left turn, which in fact many voters will want to do. If you do try to make this left turn, be patient and cautious.
  • Alternative 1:  Instead make a right turn onto Rogers Road and then find a place further down that road where you can reverse course.
  • Alternative 2:  Take the back exit from Hope Lutheran to Trentini Avenue. After 0.4 miles Trentini reaches Heritage Lake Road. Turn right onto Heritage Lake. Go 0.6 miles (passing the first traffic light) to get back to Rogers Road and the second traffic light. There you can more easily make the desired left turn. See this street map.
• TRENTINI AVENUE:  If you use Trentini Avenue to either enter into or exit from Hope Lutheran, be sure to obey the 20 mph speed limit. Please be considerate of the people owning homes along that narrow street.
• ENTRANCE TO VOTING ENCLOSURE:  The entrance to where you will vote is somewhat hidden. It is a large, red, double door (the "Red Door") at the end of the sidewalk that runs from the voter main parking area. See a path diagram and also some pictures showing the walk to the door. Of course on Election Day there will be signs along the way. Don't forget to bring your photo ID from your car; otherwise you'll have to go back and retrieve it.
• CURBSIDE:  For those needing curbside assistance, i.e., people physically unable to come inside to vote, the curbside parking area will be near the end of the Voting Enclosure. See a big picture view and a zoomed-in view. A van accessible parking area is there as well.

  If a Curbside Official is not already outside helping other voters, there is a doorbell button on a stand by which the voter can alert Officials inside that assistance is needed. It typically takes a minute or two for the Official to gather the items needed for you to vote, so be patient. There are few Officials assigned for this election; some will have to do double duty and the Curbside Official may be currently assisting other voters inside.

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