Library: Voting: Election 2020

Registration information & polling places

North Carolina registration & voting

Registering to Vote
Find instructions and forms to register as an NC voter.
NC One-Stop Voting Sites
See your county's one-stop voting locations and open hours for early voting.

Voter ID

North Carolina voters will not be required to show photo ID for the March 3, 2020 primary election per the December 31, 2019 federal district court order which blocked North Carolina’s voter photo ID requirement from taking effect. The injunction will remain in place until further order of the court.

About Voter ID
Update on voter photo id

News Literacy Resources

Worksheet

Worksheet

Candidates, issues and fact-checking resources

Your Voter's Guide: Personalized Ballot Information
Vote 411, from the League of Women's Voters
Vote Smart
Provides candidates' biographical information, positions, ratings, speeches and more.
C-SPAN.org
C-SPAN's mission is "to provide C-SPAN's audience access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided..."
Factcheck.org
A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania with the mission to "monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases".
PolitiFact
Rates specific statements made by politicians for accuracy.
Snopes
Identifies as the oldest and largest fact-checking site online

Streaming video debate resources

Democratic presidential debate, night 2
June 28, 2019
ABC News Democratic Debate
Streamed live on September 12, 2019
6th Democratic Debate hosted by PBS NewsHour and Politico
Streamed live on December 19, 2019
ABC News, Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate in New Hampshire
Streamed live on February 7, 2020
South Carolina Democratic debate
Streamed live on Feb 25, 2020, CBS News

Current issues resources

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
Reports and opinion pieces on current political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and economics.
SIRS Issues Researcher This link opens in a new window
Viewpoints and selected periodical articles on over 300 current and controversial issues.
eLibrary This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text coverage of a wide range of topics to help you start your research. Content includes documents from books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from selected newspapers, including the Star-News (Wilmington), Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Toronto Star, and others.