While the national election scene heats up, voters shouldn’t forget several state primary elections are still undecided from May’s elections, with runoff elections set for July 17.
Voters can cast their one-stop early votes at the Polk County Board of Elections office Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. or Saturday, July 14 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
All usual county polling places will be open that day from 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
If you are interested in voting in these runoffs, you must have voted in the first primary.
The following runoffs are up for a vote:
• N.C. Lieutenant governor Republican candidates Dan Forest and Tony Gurley
• N.C. Commissioner of Insurance Republican candidates  Richard Morgan and Mike Causey
• N.C. Commissioner of Labor Democratic candidates Marlowe Foster and John C. Brooks
• N.C. Secretary of State Republican candidates Kenn Gardner and Ed Goodwin
• N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction Republican candidates John Tedesco and Richard Alexander
As of June 29 North Carolina voter rolls included 6,282,411 registered voters, which are comprised of 2,728,157 Democratic voters; 1,971,579 Republican voters; 13,817 Libertarian voters and 1,568,858 unaffiliated voters.