Fights over school boards share ballot with North Carolina’s Senate primary (Tuesday!)

cnn.com ^ | 5/14/22 | Katie Lobosco

[cotton1706]

North Carolina’s Senate race is among the most competitive in the nation this year. But voters across the state are also weighing in on highly contested school board races fueled by parents who felt voiceless throughout the pandemic and a conservative focus on how topics like race and sex are taught in public schools.

In many North Carolina counties, the May 17 primary offers voters a long list of candidates to choose from for their local school board.

In Forsyth County, 28 candidates are vying for nine school board slots, and in Johnston County, 13 people are on the ballot to fill three open seats. In solidly Democratic Durham County, a slate of conservatives is hoping to capture a majority of the board, and a Wilmington-based political action committee has endorsed four Republicans for the New Hanover County Board of Education.

The largest school system in the state, Wake County, won’t hold a school board election until November, but it’s already expected to be competitive with all nine of the board’s seats up for election.

“We are seeing a lot more people running and a lot of veteran school board members retiring,” said Leanne Winner, executive director of the North Carolina School Boards Association.

[ComputerGuy]

I voted in Wake County on Saturday to take advantage of early voting. Turnout was steady, if not heavy. The election crew was the largest I’ve ever seen. I interacted with eight ‘balloteers’ before actually casting my vote. Not a single one asked me to show any identification.

[Salvavida]

I’m in ultra-red Onslow, where the marxists don’t put a lot of money in because they got curb-stomped last election.

[DownInFlames]

So did I. Showing ID is now considered racist. Am I to assume that minorities are too stupid or lazy to have some form of government ID?

[ComputerGuy]

Yes. It has officially, if tacitly, become standard policy.