05/01/2024
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The Bladen County Board of Elections will have their regular monthly meeting August 10, 2021, at 5:00pm. Topic will be One-Stop Voting, according to Christopher L. Williams, Director Bladen County Board of Elections.

The meeting will be held at the elections office located at 301 S Cypress Street in Elizabethtown N.C.

According to Williams, the next scheduled meeting will be Tuesday August 17, 2021, to elect poll workers.

  • 163-41. (a) Appointment of Chief Judge and Judges. – At the meeting required by G.S. 163-31 to be held on the Tuesday following the third Monday in August of the year in which they are appointed, the county board of elections shall appoint one person to act as chief judge and two other persons to act as judges of election for each precinct in the county.

(c) The chairman of each political party in the county where possible shall recommend two registered voters in each precinct who are otherwise qualified, are residents of the precinct, have good moral character, and are able to read and write, for appointment as chief judge in the precinct, and he shall also recommend where possible the same number of similarly qualified voters for appointment as judges of election in that precinct. If such recommendations are received by the county board of elections no later than the fifth day preceding the date on which appointments are to be made, it must make precinct appointments from the names of those recommended. Provided that if only one name is submitted by the fifth day preceding the date on which appointments are to be made, by a party for judge of election by the chairman of one of the two political parties in the county having the greatest numbers of registered voters in the State, the county board of elections must appoint that person.

The public is invited to attend.

 

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