WF Voting Precinct 19-12 split in two

Just another indication of Wake Forest’s growth: Precinct 19-12 had grown to over 8,000 voters and has been split into two, Precincts 19-22 and Precinct 23.
During its regular meeting on May 2, 2023, the five people on the Wake County Board of Elections voted to split Precinct 19-12 into two parts, new Precincts 19-22 and 19-23, with a roughly equal number of voters.
Precinct 19-23 is the larger, stretching from the NC 98 Bypass down to the Neuse River in a rough long rectangle bounded on the west by South Main Street and to the east by a small stream called Hatters Bridge Creek., according to a staff member at the Wake elections office or Smith Creek according to a knowledgable election official. All of Holding Village is included. Precinct 19-22 is also bounded by South Main and then by Wait Avenue to the north. It stretches across and down the bypass and Jones Dairy Road and somewhat resembles a boot.
Precinct 19-23 voters will continue to use Heritage Middle School as their voting location; Precinct 19-22 voters will now be going to the Wake County Northern Regional Center to vote, which is already one of the early-voting sites.
The local precinct iMAPS have been updated. However, a lot of the voting information is maintained by the state and the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the process of changing all affected data can take a while. That includes new voter cards, which are mailed.
However, there will surely be a lot of information about the changes before the next election, which is on November 7. It will be the town election for three town commissioner seats which are now held by Commissioners Chad Sary, Adam Wright and Jim Dyer. Joe Kimray, a retiring planning board chairman, was the first to announce, Adam Wright was the second, Faith Cross is the third, announcing on May 10. Filing for the seats takes place in July.
The Wake County Board of Elections, like all county election boards, is made up of five people. Four are appointed by the State Board of Elections, two Democrats and two Republicans, and the fifth, the chairman, is named by the governor. The current Wake County board is made up of Chairman Erica Porter, Secretary Angela Hawkins, Gerry Cohen, Keith Weatherby and Greg Flynn.
As of May 8, Wake had 797,650 voters, broken down as 283,785 Democrats, 174,412 Republicans, 6,295 Libertarians, 126 Greens, and 333,032 Unaffiliated.
Gary Sims has been the director for several years and is retiring at the end of May. His replacement will be Olivia McCall, who has been the assistant director.
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