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PHOTOS: A Day Of Voting Around The Triangle
By Amy Townsend
Published November 8, 2016 at 4:26 PM EST
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Across North Carolina, voters packed polling places to cast their ballots on a wide range of issues ranging from local bond referendums to a historic presidential race on Tuesday. For many, the end of the contentious election season couldn’t come soon enough.
Many waited in long lines throughout the day. In Durham, poll workers switched to paper voter lists by midmorning after problems with electronic voter rolls.
The federal Department of Justice also sent election monitors into polls to observe voting in four North Carolina counties on Tuesday. Democracy North Carolina has also organized a thousand volunteers, who waited outside polls across the state to address voters' questions and concerns.
Note: Some of the photos in this gallery are part of an occasional installment in collaboration with students and faculty at theSchool of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Lisa Philip is an occasional contributor to WUNC. Previously, she covered education for the station and covered schools in Howard County, Maryland for the Baltimore Sun newspapers.