Name: Fayetteville leaders discuss looting, fires and next steps for the city
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Description: Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin, Police Chief Gina V. Hawkins and Fire Chief Michael Hill discuss recent looting and fires across Fayetteville, the citywide curfew and next steps.

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Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin, Police Chief Gina V. Hawkins and Fire Chief Michael Hill discuss recent looting and fires across Fayetteville, the citywide curfew and next steps.

from last night to our chief, Jim Hawkins, and entire federal Police Department and out of the citizens of this great city of favor, Thank you for putting on display for the world to see the true image of who we are. In the city of Fayetteville last night we had a wonderful night of expression and unity, and that was only possible because of those law abiding protesters that chose to come out to respect the rule of law, to respect the boundaries in the areas of expression that they were given by Police Department. And it was possible because we had a police department who understands and empathizes with the police and cries of this community and the citizens who are expressing themselves in a number of ways for change. And I think that's where real change starts, that our plan going forward is to continue dialogue with our community leaders with the organizers of this protest peaceful protest. They continue to have a conversation about real change here in the city of Fayetteville and how we can work together to make sure that our system of government works for everyone. And we've worked hard in this community over the last several years to build those type of bonds and relationships that were on full display last night. And so I want to first say thank you for that and I'll. Secondly, I would like to ask our future protest organizers to continue in a good spirit of of law abiding, peaceful protests that realized that injury the person or the property is not the way to have your cause is heard. And I would also like to thank the citizens of this city for complying with the curfew orders. Last two nights have been very peaceful. Our police officers and first responders were able to do their job, and we thank you for body about a curfew and to remain at home and just to remind everyone curfew is still in effect. It goes from eight PM to six AM and will remain in effect until revoked and reacted to. Please continue to bear with us and only move about if absolutely necessary, but also like to remind you that the downtown areas will continue to be restricted, starting at 5 p.m. So the institute please, if you do not have to travel in that area, after five PM to please abide by those restrictions that have been in place for personal safety and for property protection. You know, we're very fortunate in this community as I look around a number of communities who are dealing with officers that have been injured. ST Louis had a number of officers shot my understanding. Riley have a number of officers in the police department, and so far thanks be to God that we have not had any injury to Our first responders are brave men and women who put their life on the line day in and day out, and protect the citizens of this city. We have not had any significant injury to protesters and citizens who are operating their constitutional right of expression in a lawful men. But we have also shown that we will continue to maintain order in our city, in our community, for those who have other intentions that want to try to hijack this noble calls of change for their own agenda. And so we will continue to deal with those perpetrators of those actions. So at this time, I will ask that chief hell will come and give us a briefing as it relates Teoh Fire Department and their role in this Good morning. Michio Fire, chief city of Fayetteville, happy to report that we sustained no firefighter injuries to this point. We've had no damage to any of our equipment or facilities, and a key point is we've experienced very minimal fire damage throughout the Viet throughout the entire city are fire Damage has been contained to a few doctors and trash cans, 1 18 machine and the minor damage that was done at the market house by fire. Our response has been very well playing on strategic in nature. We have extra resource. Is we brought in to keep the citizens safe? I do want to touch real quick on our response to the Market House. I know it's drawing a lot of criticism, understandably, but please, I want everyone to be aware this was planned. It was very well thought out. We brought in extra units we had him staged in the downtown area. We had evaluated to build and we knew the structure type. We had removed the fire load of the building and we knew it had a very well operating sprinkler system and we were cost of surveillance. We were confident that the tactics that were being used by the protest testers wasn't going to result in the catastrophic destruction that was desired. That once we noticed that those tactics shift, that's when we reached out to our partners at the police Department, said, Hey, now it's time We need to take action and we did, and it worked out very well. But please understand that our firefighters have no way to protect themselves in these violent environments. And we are relying upon our law enforcement partners to keep her safe. And they've done an excellent job with that, those four. So in my excitement, I would be happy to answer any questions. Remember, take questions that come about. So at this time we would have ah, Chief Gina Hawkins, Police Department. So good morning. Um, I think I've already shared this long weekend what we've been dealing with the ability before people to share in their protests. On Saturday, we had some threats to the community that we were evaluating on Sunday, and then yesterday was another day. That was a lot of information coming to our community and and a lot of things were being evaluated at the same time. So in taking all that, what ended it was a walking protests. But the protesters didn't realize that we had established restriction coming into the city. But once we communicated to that, we it became a little volatile on and there was an arrest when they could not pass a certain point to come into the downtown area. Um, we also realize that that energy continued, Um, we got to a point where it increased and there was a stand. It was a stand. But I want to tell this part of the story I share how we in law enforcement work hard in the city of favor. Teoh do what this sign behind me says We're one agency, one community, one family. We do that because we are part of the community. We do that by getting engaged with the community, living in the community, having relationship building true relationships with the community. Last night, one of my officers who were on the line I knew a few people that were in the crowd. This officer was communicating, not me. Although I was communicating with some members up at the scene that we're leading in. And although my commanders out there were discussing to identify it, my officer from the patrol was communicating Teoh, another person in the crowd from the line. So when I say is not just one person, it takes a lot. This officer was requested. Does just take a knee. He took it up the chain. Can we do this? Absolutely. We've been wanting to share that. We are in solidarity with the community. A long time ago we shared when I communicated on Thursday of last week after the incident, how appalled and how this was not us. And this was not law enforcement. What, according to George Boy, how we knew everything was wrong about that and how we understand what's going on in the community. We have been wanted to march with the community ourselves, but at the same time, we were required to maintain order and keep people safe. So when that request came up and when it was done, when I tell you the energy from both sides, the tears from both sides, my officers Hartfield my room where we were monitoring it, engaging it, the energy in that room, what we felt is priceless. It's what it's about, and we know it doesn't stop yesterday. We know it's one day we make a conversation to here. The unheard toe listen to explain, to educate into empower everyone, to be treated with respect, everyone to be treated fairly in law. Order to be protecting our community doesn't take just the police Department. It takes the entire community to establish the guidelines. And that's what we hear about. So I can't be more prouder of the community and can't be more proud or amount department and my officers showing how real community policing looks like in the time when it's rough. That's all happening. So I think before we open up for just a few questions, I'd like to thank members on the state level. Governor Cooper's office E. He calls and checks in regularly called just about every morning, just to see how we doing what we need, as far as resource is, so thank you for that. Support also received a call yesterday from Senate President Field Burger. He called just Teoh express his gratitude and to have me to express the chief Hawkins in our entire city staff and leadership that Hey was very impressed with the way that we have helped dealt with the situation in the city, Fayetteville. And so right now is a pivotal moment for all of us to set aside politics in partisanship. Unless let's make real change in this community. And I think we can start that right here. So what, then? I guess we'll open up to any any questions over here. She feels comfortable. Yes, this part. There's two things. First of all, talk about your experience in working in a big city like Atlanta, and because of that experience, you know it. Probably what needs to be done when you have large protests and what does not need to be done. And did you draw on that experience in order to make decisions here? Yes. So yes. Over 32 years of law enforcement spirits in Atlanta I've been part of the line have also been part of at least six major riot protests. Six major incidents where things were occurring. I've been a part of incidents where we made bad decisions and tactics in law enforcement where we've had to learn it. I've made been a part of each year, each incident. We've regressed and get experience and learn different things that benefits both sides, the community in law enforcement and the last one was there similar to this one, where there was the possibility in same strategies, results that were used is what I apply, knowing the decisions have to be made. Not just with with one element. There are many things that are evaluated. Many discussion, many options to understand what is the best strategy to have the best outcome for first presidents in life and then keeping the community safe with the property is many, many things, but definitely a lot of experience. Just probably the the major part of the problem with the George look Floyd was the fact that the officers had the opportunity to de escalate that situation before I got to the point where the the individuals only ground need supplies can talk about your training in terms of the escalating situations here, so in favor. We have extensive training and it is not just one box training. We continue not only to train on de escalation where the crisis intervention, different levels of training of this de escalations we know it devolved communications it involves more people strategy. Evaluating the other thing it evolves is assessing the situation, not operating on emotions because emotions get us all making bad decisions, operating on practicing new training. And we always researching more train todo. So my department has had extensive training and we continue Look for more. Most most importantly, we talked to each other. We communicate because we know the first of first thing is being communicated to the community. Is this uniform that in itself? Says says, Some idea and we don't know what your thought is is a good or positive. So the effort of trying to make sure there's a good outcome is part of that. So we have. The department continues to train and we look for We're always looking for more training Republicans, which reaction to I talked to. Several officers felt your hands were tied Saturday night. They were seeing all the district structure happening and including, and they were distrust rated with how that was handled. What's your reaction to that? Reactions? Well, to the video officer last night, after everyone. Yes, yeah, yeah, I actually shared them so and I actually pushed it to the actual officer and saying efforts same, same as the rest. This is who we are in that effort and to response to. I think you said a officer is the same response that I give to the community. I empathize and understand that feeling of not knowing the full picture, not being able to understand and your silo, what's going on, the all encompassing issues that are going abroad. I understand when you don't know all that, that's how you may feel. That's why there is a command and a decision maker of evaluating different things. So I understand that. But I have a different perspective and make my decisions based off of many, many up operational issues. So you along curfew will continue the or the question. You know, I have relied heavily on the decisions of these professional public safety professionals, and so car feel will remain in effect until Chief assesses the situation and thinks that is no longer necessary. Last thing I want to do after two months of being restricted with stay at Home Waters and Karr fuse is to put another one back out there. But at the end of the day, I think we've seen the impact that it has the immediate implementation of the curfew and the results off of peace the following day. So we'll keep it will keep it out there as much as possible as relation a restriction on downtown. Same thing When, when when they assess the situation and tell me that it's time to no longer restrict downtown, then I think that we will make those adjustments. The City Council, now about the restrictions noticed cinder blocks blocking off certain streets. Well, I'll let her talk about the logistics of it. It's just basically a restriction on access vehicle access and really pretty much downtown is the heart of the business district. We know business hours fluctuate, but for the most part we're trying to be a least impact. Impactful on the business is to allow that operation, but after five we'll need to restrict that. So I'll let chief talk about particular. So the restriction also enables us to be able to continue to patrol the rest of the city. I've said this before. The downtown area is not the entire city. We have responsibility of communities of other areas, so when we don't have to have a threat to the downtown area, which we've had were able to deploy other men. Resource is outside and continue patrolling. So the answer question some are. That's it. All right. Thank you for your time.

Fayetteville leaders discuss looting, fires and next steps for the city

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Community members and loved ones of fallen law enforcement officers come together in Raleigh to remember and honor heroes for their service and sacrifices.

Here. She is Miss Judy. Thank you so much. I personally want to thank you for all that you have done at this time. I invite everyone to stand with me and please remain standing for the posting of the colors by our Wake County multi-agency color guard and remain standing for the national anthem sung by Raleigh Police Department. Senior Officer Kendall Strong followed by the invocation by Reverend Sarah Meares. I er no, that's oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light? What so proudly we hail at the twilights and last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the pear road was for the parts we watch were some gling streaming in the rockets red, the bombs bursting GP pro through the night that a flag was still there. Who say does that star spangled? And we for the and of the free? Yeah. Ok. Mhm. Officer at this time, we will have the invocation by Reverend Sarah Meares. Ok. Please pray with me, loving and gracious God as we gather together in this sacred hour. We are assured once more of your presence among us, we know that you are with us as you have been and will always continue to be in moments of loss and heartache, in moments of joy and remembrance in every mountain top and valley of our lives. You walk beside us. And so we come today asking that you cover us once more with your mercy, grace and love as we remember and honor those who served and paid the ultimate sacrifice to care for us and to keep us safe. We are here to honor husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, neighbors, colleagues and friends. We are grieving, but we are thankful oh God for their lives and the legacies they leave. We are thankful for their service, dedication to this community, strength, courage and care. Your word reminds us that there is no greater love than this to lay down one's life for his friends. We are deeply grateful and we will not forget. We ask that you keep their families and friends in your loving, embrace, comfort, their broken hearts, give them peace that can only come from you, guide them in their grief and help them to feel your presence. May they feel your love and compassion and be encouraged, knowing their loved one's legacy will not be forgotten. May today honor the lives lost and the dedication and service to this community. And may you be present in every moment leading us comforting us and challenging us to honor their memories and sacrifice in every day of our own lives in Jesus. Name we pray. Amen. Thank you, Reverend Meares for that very heartfelt prayer. This time you may be seated. It is now my pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker, Attorney General, Josh Stein, who is both a friend of to law enforcement and a fierce advocate for justice for every North Carolinian in our state. Josh Stein was sworn in for his first term as Attorney General in 2017 and his second term in 2021 he is focused on protecting North Carolina families from crime and consumer fraud. He diligently works to keep communities safe by recruiting and retaining well trained law enforcement officers. He also works to keep Children safe online, improve data security and lead a national effort to combat robocalls. Attorney General Stein is also leading efforts to combat the opioid crisis and bring treatment and recovery resources to North Carolinians struggling from drug addiction. He is working to make North Carolina's law enforcement and criminal justice systems fair and fighting the teen vaping epidemic all the while he's taken measures to protect clean air and water for our environment. Attorney General Stein previously served as a state senator and senior deputy attorney general in the North Carolina Department of Justice. He has led the efforts to put more violent criminals behind bars by expanding the state's DNA database. He uh he has also wrote the School Safety Act and the Identify the Identity Theft Protection Act and he has worked to protect kids from online sexual predators. It is my distinct pleasure and my honor to introduce North Carolina, Attorney General Josh Stein. Thank you, Chief Patterson. Good morning. Everyone I want to recognize and thank, uh, Sheriff Rowe, Chief Penry, uh, Reverend Meares, and of course, Chief Patterson, and we're grateful to Doctor Haley and Hayes Barton Baptist Church for hosting us this morning. And from the for to the Raleigh Youth Choir who will be participating shortly. It's an honor to be with you as we remember, heroes who have fallen in the line of duty here in Wake County to offer our praise and gratitude for their service to mourn their loss and to stand with their colleagues and families who've been forced to pay a heavy toll. Wake County has been my home now for three decades, I love living here. My wife Anna and I have raised our three Children here. They all went to public schools here. We work and worship here. Our neighbors are kind and thoughtful and I am so grateful and honored to be able to call Wake County home. Part of what makes this such a wonderful community is the commitment of our local police and deputies to keeping us safe. I thank them for their service to protect the people of Wake County. We make an enormous ask of peace officers. We ask them to fulfill a high calling which is to run straight to the very threat that every human instinct is telling them to go the other way to go toward the danger so that we and our loved ones can sleep safely in our homes at night. Our Children can be safe at school or at play. Being a peace officer is hard work, dangerous work, often underappreciated work. But my goodness, it is important and meaningful work. Every officer makes a choice to enter this field even though they understand the perils that may lay ahead. But they do so anyway, because they are heroes in life just as some are heroes in death. And unfortunately, we've been reminded all too recently of the sacrifices that some make. We've only just buried the four law enforcement officers we lost in tragedy in Charlotte. Their loved ones shared memories and painted portraits of officers who in and out of uniform were stand up. People looked out for others and acted with dignity and bravery. This past Tuesday, we commemorated North Carolina Peace Officer Memorial Day in Statesville. We recognized four other officers from across the state, including Raleigh Police Department's own Gabriel Jesus Torres. I want to say a word to the family members here today of the wake County officers who've lost because we know that fallen officers do not sacrifice alone. You all do as well. You were forced to wake up the next day and every day after and pick up the pieces of your lives and move forward without your loved one beside you. I'm incredibly sorry for the losses you've suffered. May the memories of your loved ones be a blessing to you today and always you played an integral role in nurturing the flame of service that burned within these fallen officers. Your support, your patience, your faith, your bravery, your love were sources of strength that supported their bravery and heroism. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. And now it's up to the rest of us to surround you with the love and support that you so deserve. I hope and pray that we fulfill this responsibility to you and to this brotherhood and sisterhood of officers who've lost friends and coworkers from your ranks. I offer my condolences to you as well. I can't presume to imagine what it must feel like to lose a colleague in uniform. But I know well, what it means to lose someone you love and care about a friend, a colleague, a mentor. I pray that the bonds among you sustain you in sorrow and in your service and the legacies of those we've lost con continue to inspire you. Today is a testament to the immense gratitude that we have for all of you and the sacrifices you make on this job for the people that you serve and protect you all are the embodiment of strength and courage. It is right and good to thank and honor you all. Both the officers here with us today and the officers we have lost. There is no shortage of challenges facing our communities today. And in almost every instance, law enforcement officers are on the front lines of our community's response to those challenges. We call on them to make a measurable number of sacrifices as our guardians. And in the most tragic of these circumstances, they make the ultimate sacrifice. No amount of thanks can repay the debt we owe them. So we must resolve to stand tall and stay strong, to watch out for each other and care for each other to do our part, to make our community safer and stronger and to live up the le to the legacies of the fallen. Thank you all. And may God hold you all closely. Thank you, Attorney General Stein for those inspiring words and thank you so much for always being a partner to law enforcement. At this time. We will have a musical selection from our Raleigh youth choir. Yeah. Ok. Wow, that was wonderful. So good to see our young men singing and doing something positive at this time. With all law enforcement officers stand with me as we prepare for the reading of the names of our fallen heroes, guests and family. You may remain seated. I invite all. I invite Wake County Sheriff, Willie Rowe to come to the podium for the roll call of names following the roll call. Please remain standing for the 21 gun salute and the playing of taps. Sure fro ok. Ok. Thomas J Crabtree Raleigh Police Department in the Watch. September 1st 1922 Guy Cecil Massey, senior Wake County Sheriff's office. End of March. September 10th, 1933. Ok, John L Taylor Wake Forest Police Department. End of Watch. May 30th 1944 George C Mitchell Wake Forest Police Department. End of March. April 26th, 1947 Robert Earl Sparks Raleigh Police Department end of March March 8th, 1968 James Gail Lee Raleigh Police Department end of March December 5th, 1968 James Wade Allen Raleigh Police Department end of watch December 5th, 1968. Mm, Robert Randall East, North Carolina State highway patrolled end of March, December 21st, 1972 Del Mar D, Adams Raleigh Police Department end of Watch, February 3rd, 1980 Coen Low Wake Forest Police Department end of March, February 26th, 1984. We Bayless the third, North Carolina State Highway patrol. End of March February 5th, 1988 Denise Holden Raleigh Police Department end of March August 4th, 1995 William Earl Godwin Marsel Police Department. End of March May 22nd, 1997 Paul Andrew Hale Raleigh Police Department end of March, July 11th, 1997 Charles Radford, Paul the third Raleigh Police Department end of March, September 10th, 2002, William Franklin James, the second Wake County Sheriff's office end of March September 5th, 2003, Phil Owens Wake County Sheriff's Office End of March October 2nd 2003, Mark Reed Tucker. Wake County Sheriff's office end of March, February 12th, 2004 and drew Stocks, North Carolina State Highway patrol. End of March September 9th, 2008, Stephan, Maurice Wall. Wake County Sheriff's office end of March, April 22nd, 2018, Ryan A Hayworth night, Dale Police Department. End of March October 17th, 2021. NED P by Wake County Sheriff's Office. End of March, August 11th, 2022 Gabriel Jesus Torres Raleigh Police Department end of March October 13th, 2022 K nine, Santos Wake County Sheriff's office end of March May 26th, 2023. Ready. Hey, no. Hey, no. Hey, thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. Officers please. We will now have another musical selection from our amazing Raleigh youth choir. All they are. They Move Me up, all they are. Yeah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah H 01 on Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah. Halle. Halle, we are there. Go here, you know, other than God and they do me up. Yeah, we have all that. We have truly amazing what a solemn yet joyous occasion. This has been to celebrate the lives of our fallen brothers, sisters and canine partner. Scripture reminds us that in our sufferings, there is glory because suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, produces character and character encourages hope. And we know that hope maketh not a shame. Sometimes the truths of these words are difficult to understand and even consume. But let me assure you that the losses we have suffered in the deaths of our heroes whose names were read today are not in vain. Each loss has produced incredible strength and a perseverance that builds character and hope for a better tomorrow. Subsequently, those of us who are still standing, have a responsibility and the awesome privilege of carrying the legacy of each of the fallen officers by fulfilling what they all loved so dearly. And that was serving their community. Let us leave today with a renewed energy and desire to give a little bit more for the betterment of the whole. We live in a wonderful county where at least the 65 people who are moving here daily thinks that this region is the finest the state has to offer and we have a duty to protect and serve with the same valor enthusiasm, integrity and selfless service of our fallen comrades. The mantle has been passed on to us to continue the good fight that keeps the scales of justice balanced, to close out this wonderful service. I invite you to stand to your feet for the benediction by wake Tech police chief Michael Penry and the retiring of the colors. OK. Scripture reads in Psalm 46. God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in the time of trouble. Therefore, we will not fear though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with surging the Lord Almighty is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress. Would you pray with me? Lord? Anytime we lose a law enforcement officer in the line of duty, it seems like the storms of life rage. It seems as though mountains crumble and seas roar and um and everything is, is out of control. But God, you are a refuge and you are our strength and you are with us and you are our fortress. So God, I pray that in these times uh of remembrance that you would overwhelm us with comfort and strength and compassion. Lord, for the families of those that have lost loved ones in the line of duty. I know that some grief comes like waves over and over and lord I pray that they would seek you for strength and refuge. We thank you for this opportunity. We have to remember those who gave all in the, in their line of duty. And Lord, we will always remember them and recognize them. And may we live out the courage that they lived before us? Lord, we love you. It's in jesus' name that we pray. Amen. Opposite. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Thank you for joining us today. And I'd like to extend a special thank you to our Special Operations Division for putting everything together so well and so amazingly, they had me a little bit worried but they did a fantastic job. So thank you for that. I do invite you to please remain with us and in your seats while our guests exit the stage along with the families of our heroes and then our command staff and we invite everyone to a special lunch, lunch, and reception. We have for the families to support you in your loss. We, our ushers will be available to direct you where to go for that and family. We really want you to be there with us. So if you are able to stay for that special luncheon, we appreciate it greatly. Thank you all again for being here and God bless you. Yeah. Ok. Ok. Yeah. Yeah, it's ok. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ok.

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<p>I'm Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State board of Elections. I'm here with Paul Cox, our general counsel to the state board. Thank you to all the members of the press in attendance for helping us to get accurate information to the public. Tomorrow. Tuesday, May 14th is the second primary election day in North Carolina. There are two statewide Republican second primaries on the ballot tomorrow. State Auditor and Lieutenant governor to be eligible to vote in those contests. You must either be a registered Republican or an unaffiliated voter who either did not vote in the March 5th primary election or voted the Republican ballot in the primary. The winners of these contests will be the Republican nominees in the November general election. Also on ballots in some locations. Tomorrow are a Republican second primary in the 13th congressional district as well as local contests in Gaston and Orange counties. Tomorrow is the last opportunity for registered and eligible voters to cast their ballot in this election election day. Polling places will be open statewide from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voters should go to their assigned voting location. You can find your assigned voting location and your sample ballot in the voter search tool. On the state board's website N CS ve.gov, some election day voting sites have been consolidated for the second primary. So please make sure to confirm the location of your election day poll in place through the voter search tool. Another important reminder, voters will be asked to show a photo ID. When they check in to vote, most voters will simply show their driver's license but there are many other acceptable forms of photo id for more information including the full list of acceptable I DS visit, bring it nc.gov. If a voter cannot show a photo ID, they can still vote by filling out an ID exception form and voting a provisional ballot. Finally, a crucial reminder to absentee voters. If you still want to vote your absentee ballot, your only option is to drop off your ballot at your county board of elections office by 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow. Today is too late to put that ballot in the mail. It must arrive at your county board of elections office by 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. As an alternative, you can still, you can simply discard your absentee ballot and vote in person at your assigned voting location tomorrow. So how will results get reported? Unofficial election results will be posted as they come in tomorrow night on the state Board's elections, dashboard results dashboard as always just remember, elections are not over on election night during the 10 day canvas period after election day, bipartisan county boards of elections in all 100 counties count the remaining absentee ballots, research and count provisional ballots, audit the results and conduct any necessary recount. For example, every county conducts a sample hand count of ballots in randomly selected election day precincts, early voting sites or the absentee ballots cast in the county. Even during second primaries, we do this with every election. This process is to confirm results tabulated by our certified and tested voting equipment. Counties must conduct these hand counts in public. Finally, I just want to tell voters all voters in North Carolina who are eligible to vote in the Republican second primary that there is still time to make your voice heard all too often. We see low turnout in second primary elections. Yet votes cast in these contests will decide the nominees of the Republican party for the general election in these particular contests. So get out there and vote. And with that, I will take your questions, please put your name and media organization in the chat if you wish to ask a question. All righty. Uh looks like Michael Highland was first, Michael, go ahead and unmute. And are you able to hear me? Ok, I can hear you. Ok, great. Um My first question related to what you just said at the end about the um history of the low turnout in these um second primaries. Um What if anything do you think the state could do, are there any steps you think could be taken to help improve turnout in these, uh, second primaries if we're gonna continue to have them? I don't tend to weigh in on that. Um, but I'm happy to talk to legislators. It did actually come up um, briefly in a question from a legislator, uh, during the joint elections committee meeting recently and there are options. Um, we have adjusted this law in the past. Um And I think, you know, that's something that legislators can consider. Um And, and determine whether a second primary method is the right path for North Carolinians or not. Um And then are there any um recommendations for counties who may be concerned about the cost of doing this with seeing so few people turn out any other things that maybe could be done to help with that? Uh The, the cost of elections by our state law is the responsibility of the counties. Um You know, that might be something else. Uh There's different methods of who pays for primaries and second primaries and runoffs in other states. So that would be something we need to look at from a legislative standpoint and happy to discuss with uh our lawmakers on how those methods and, and processes work in other states. Um So, yeah, but at this point, you know what we do, whether it's a second primary or a general election, whatever the case, we prepare for 100% turnout and um and hope that we will see that kind of turnout, whether it's a second primary or a presidential general election. Laura Leslie. Uh You should be unmuted. Can you hear me? Ok. Hi Laura. Hey. Um, so couple questions. Number one, what was our turnout for the prime for the uh first primary? Uh We were at about 24% if I remember correctly. What do we average for a second primary? Uh, second primary or of far too often in single digits? It does certainly depend on what might be happening in a local contest. Like we've got going on in Orange and Gaston counties or, uh, we'll probably see a higher turnout in the counties with the 13th congressional district. Um, but overall statewide, we're at about 0.7% turnout for those voters who are eligible, which is about, uh, uh, not quite 5 million eligible voters considering the unaffiliated and the Republican, uh, voters, you're saying so far so far? That's right. Hopefully that goes up tomorrow. We don't see people turn out. All right. Um, ok. So another question, um, what do people do if they are one of those folks who has gotten delayed getting their driver's license because of the glitch that's happening at the DMV. So, say you've got a paper driver's license. How do you vote? There's actually an exception for that on the exception form. So we could, um, help them that way or potentially they may have another acceptable form of ID. Um, you know, there are many student I DS that are acceptable public, uh, employee I DS that are permitted tribal veteran I DS passports. Um, so there are options and that's why we definitely encourage voters to look at our website. And the list of I DS that are acceptable, uh, bring it nc.gov is the site for that. And again, if it's this particular case where they have not gotten their ID from the DMV, at this point in time, that is a, uh, an exception on the exception form as well. Great. Thank you. Um, and just real quickly, do we know that is Jennifer Moore withdrawn from the primary in Orange County? Um, she's actually uh past the point to withdrawal, um, but she has resigned. So, uh, we have a situation where she will appear on the ballot. The ballots had already gone out. Um Similarly, we have an indication from the 13th congressional district that the, one of the candidates does not, you know, intend to continue. Um, but the ballots had already gone out in both of these situations. So, um, that, that process will, you know, continue, those votes will be counted. Um If, if those individuals um happen to be the top vote getters, then we'll address that with them and, and how they choose to continue. So there's nothing but there's nothing like if you go to an election site, right? You go to, to tomorrow on election day, there's no signs or anything that are telling you that that one of these people is no longer running. That's correct. They have announced that, but they, um, they, they could not withdraw at the point when they made that announcement, Paul, is there anything from a legal standpoint? You want to add in on that? No, I think you said it correctly. I mean, at this point, um, our law requires that the election continue as is and that the results be declared. Uh And because the, the Orange County contest is not a primary contest, it's like the actual election, the, the, the run off to determine who's going to take office. So whoever is the highest vote earner in that runoff contest will be declared the new, um, uh person who's eligible to assume office for that Board of Education seat in Orange County. And then it'd be up to that person whether to assume that office just like it is for anyone who's elected. And if they don't, then it'd be up to the Board of Education to um, uh fill that vacancy if, if no one takes office once they're elected. Thank you. Uh Gary Robertson should be able to unmute and ask your question. I can hear you. Gary, let's, it's a little static. Let's see. OK. I wanted to ask, I was intrigued by the idea that there are some counties where precincts have been consolidated for the second primary. How, how is that accomplished? And is that a potential solution for counties to deal with second runoff expenses in the future? It's actually a, a practice that in my 18 years of working in elections administration, uh that we've seen this practice has gone on um for some time when we have second primaries where we anticipate a lower turnout or even in municipal elections, when there are fewer eligible voters, we can consolidate. Um There's a provision within the law about, you know, uh the, the locations being adjacent, the precincts being adjacent to each other, so that we're not um you know, creating a burden for someone to have to travel across the county. It's not that level of consolidation, but nearby precincts can be consolidated. Um The boards had to take action on that and notice to the voters that were affected. Um So it, it's, it's something that's um we've approved many weeks ago actually, I guess you could say um almost months ago, um as the, they rolled into the second primary to be prepared. And um and, and it does help to reduce costs. We still um are able to uh identify uh the ballots cast by precinct um because we still, the voters are still registered with the precinct that they um you know, their boundaries uh where they belong. Um But we are able to use a uh a consolidated polling site Thank you. All right. I see a couple of hands raised. Um, I'm gonna get to you all. First, Lisa Worf. Do you have a question? How many fewer, uh, polling sites are you expecting in the second primary compared to the, the first one?</p>

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