Expectations
Precinct Officials are expected to administer the voting process in this manner, treating voters fairly and without political favoritism.
What is fairly and impartially?
This fail-safe method of voting allows a voter to cast a ballot while the Board of Elections verifies their eligibility after Election Day.
What is provisional voting?
Precinct officials can access the Precinct Management App in either of these two ways.
What are scanning the QR code or opening the app on the Chief Judge's phone?
Voters age 65 or older may use an expired photo ID if it was unexpired on or after this date.
What is their 65th birthday?
These two voting options should be considered if you are unable to work at your home precinct on Election Day.
What are absentee voting and early voting?
What is campaign paraphernalia?
These are the three tools offered by OVRD.
What are the Voter Search Tool, Street Search Tool, and Precinct Search Tool?
This form is used to report the number of voters who have cast ballots at your precinct at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.
What is the Voter Count Report Form?
What is the voter's ATV?
This Precinct Official is responsible for scheduling Monday set-up.
Precinct Officials must avoid showing favor toward these, even unintentionally.
What are political parties and candidates?
When a voter arrives at the wrong polling place and refuses to go to their assigned polling place, this is the option available to them.
What is vote a provisional ballot?
There are the three observer lists available to view in the Precinct Management App.
For this election, this type of North Carolina Photo ID remains acceptable for voting even if it expired on or after July 1, 2025.
What is a North Carolina Class C Driver's License?
Precinct Officials should bring enough of these two essentials to keep themselves nourished and hydrated throughout Election Day.
What are food and water?
Precinct Officials must check and remove this from voting booths between voters.
What are materials left behind?
This is what you should never tell a voter who casts a provisional ballot.
What is whether or not their vote will count?
This new feature on the Absentee and Early Voting Lists lets you quickly jump directly to your precinct's list.
What is a clickable table of contents?
This type of temporary ID issued by the DMV while a voter waits for their physical license cannot be accepted as an acceptable photo ID.
Before the polls open, Precinct Officials should place these items from the signs tube outside to help voters locate the polling place.
What are outdoor signs?
Precinct Officials must not let these influence how they perform their election duties.
What are personal and political opinions?
When a voter has moved more than 30 days ago, has not reported the move to the Board of Elections, and arrives at their new precinct, this procedure must be completed in OVRD.
This site, accessible through the Precinct Management App, provides Election Day videos, workbooks, and flowcharts for precinct officials.
What is P.O.E.T. (Precinct Official's Election Tool)?
A driver's license or non-driver ID issued by another state, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory is acceptable as photo ID only when the voter registered within this timeframe before the election.
What is 90 days?
What should remain unopened until election morning?
What is the screen to the DS200 Tabulator?