Election Day Tips

The NC State Board of Elections has a few tips for today’s voters.

Polls across the state are open until 7:30 p.m. and voters still in line at 7:30

will still be able to cast a vote. Keep in mind, lines tend to be longer before and after normal business hours.

You are required to vote at your designated precinct, that you can find online by visiting the State Board of Elections website and go to ‘Voter Search’ or ‘Polling Place Search’. You can also find sample ballots through the Voter Search tool

online, and remember that same-day registration is not available today.

If you’re not registered to vote, you will not be able to vote today..

Voters are not required to show a photo ID to vote in this year’s general election.

And finally to protect all involved, masks and hand sanitizer will be available to all voters, and remember to observe social distancing practices while at the polls.

COVID-19

COVID-19 claims two more Burke County residents as local positive cases continue to climb.

In a news release, public health officials report the fifty-ninth and sixtieth deaths in Burke.

The release reports both were hospitalized when they died from virus related complications; one in their 60’s, and one in their 50’s.

There are currently 3-thousand-173 positive cases in Burke; up 78 positives since last reported on Friday.

According to the release, the increase is due to late reporting to the electronic data surveillance system from new testing locations.

In Burke, 422 cases are active, 2-thousand-635 cases are termed recovered, and 6 remain hospitalized.

Officials with the Burke County Health Department in Monday’s release are encouraging parents to make sure their children’s immunizations and school health assessments are up to date, even though they’re not in school full-time.

According to the release, there has been an extension provided under executive order 172 to allow families time to obtain all outstanding immunizations and health assessments before the December deadline.

For more information or to schedule an appointment for immunizations or school health assessments, call the health department at 764-9150.

Theft Arrest

A Marion man is charged in connection with property theft that occurred in July.

Reports with the McDowell Sheriff’s Office say an Asheville man told officers on July 16th that someone removed a backhoe, a metal building, diesel fuel and gasoline, a cast iron pot, and a water tank from a field on Burma Road East in Marion.

Investigators received information that 54-year-old James Andrew Johnson of Sugar Hill Road had taken some of the items.

Johnson was charged with stealing the metal building, the water tank, and cast iron pot.

Value of stolen items was 20-thousand-500 dollars.

The metal building was recovered; however, the remaining items are still missing.