NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. – The New Hanover County Board of Elections unanimously approved a “One-Stop Voting Implementation Plan” for the 2020 general election The one-stop, also known as “early voting," voting period begins on Thursday, October 15 and ends on Saturday, October 31. 

There will be six sites and all sites will have hours from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The sites will also have weekend hours of noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, Sunday, October 18, Saturday, October 24 and Sunday, October 25. The final day of One-Stop voting will be Saturday, October 31 all sites will be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The One-Stop sites in New Hanover County are:

  • NHC Government Center: 230 Government Center Drive, Wilmington in Suite 34 (on the west side of the building, facing College Road)
  • Northeast Library: 1241 Military Cutoff Road, Wilmington
  • Senior Resource Center: 2222 S College Road, Wilmington
  • Wilma W. Daniels Art Gallery at Cape Fear Community College: 200 Hanover Street, Wilmington
  • Carolina Beach Community Center: 300 Cape Fear Blvd., Carolina Beach
  • McKeithan Center at CFCC North Campus: 4500 Blue Clay Road, Castle Hayne

Residents who are not registered in New Hanover County may also register to vote during the one-stop early voting period at any of the six locations.

Curbside voting will be available at all sites for anyone who cannot to enter the voting location due to age, physical disability, and physical barriers encountered at the voting place.

 “If you prefer to vote in-person, we encourage you to vote early during our One-Stop voting period in October, because it will help prevent long lines and crowded polls on election day,” said Board of Elections Chair Thomas Pollard. “The process for this election, including the sanitation and social distancing protocols, will be different than ever before. So the more people we can get to vote early at a One-Stop site or through absentee by-mail, the better. We want to ensure everyone is safe throughout election season, and we also want everyone to be able to vote. So we are balancing those two priorities and will be working over the coming months to further refine our plans.”