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Beaufort County Board of Elections Director Kellie Hopkins has been involved in North Carolina elections for 28 years. She’s learned firsthand that you can’t procrastinate. “Election preparation started months ago,” Hopkins said in a Wednesday briefing on election procedures hosted by Keep Our Republic, a nonpartisan civic education organization. Hopkins’ staff is busy this week doing extensive logic and accuracy testing of the county’s voting machines and tabulators. Ahead of early in-person voting that begins Oct. 15, her team is getting laptops and other electronics ready to be deployed to the precincts. Clayton Henckel, NC Newsline.
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Election reform ballot measures
By M. Mindy Moretti
electionline.org
Voting on voting has grown in recent years and this year is no exception. Voters in more than 21 states will vote on elections-related ballot measures both at the state and local level.
Overall, according to Ballotpedia, there are 164 statewide ballot measures that are certified for the ballot in 40 states for elections in 2026. On November 3, voters will decide 145 (88%) of them. The remaining 19 were spread across earlier election dates. From 2010 to 2024, the average number of statewide ballot measures in an even-numbered year was 161, including 53 citizen-initiated measures.
Of the elections-related ballot measures, voter ID requirements and citizenship requirements certainly lead the pack, but there are also measures on election dates, recalls, special elections, ranked choice voting (to implement and repeal), and there are a number of ballot measures on ballot measures themselves.
Here is a brief look at all the elections-related ballot measures at the state and local level that we found. If we missed one, please let us know and we’ll update this list. Special thanks to Ballotpedia for doing the heavy lifting on the statewide measures.
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