OCTOBER 13-19, 2021 UCW 13
Best of Fayetteville
Early Voting in Hope Mills
will kick off on Oct. 14 and run
through Oct. 30. as residents of
the town start voting for their
next Mayor and five Town Com-
missioners. e winners of the
election will serve for the next
two years.
e candidates for Mayor
are Jessie Bellflowers, a cur-
rent commissioner and military
veteran, and Jackie Warner,
the current Mayor. Warner has
served as Mayor for the past ten
years. Bellflowers has been a
town commissioner for the past
four years.
Up & Coming Weekly will con-
duct a joint Q&A session with
the two candidates. at inter-
view will be published in the
Oct. 27 edition.
ere are seven people run-
ning for Town Commissioner.
Only five will be voted in. e
candidates are: Sally Bailey,
Jerry Legge, Bryan Marley, Ken-
juana McCray, Grilley Mitchell,
Jim Morris and Joanne Scarola.
No photo identification is
needed to vote unless you are a
newly registered voter.
If you want to register to vote
and cast a ballot on the same
day, you will need to bring an
ID with your name and your
current address. e document
may be a digital image on your
cell phone.
When entering the polling lo-
cation, you will be asked to state
your name and your address.
Curbside voting will be avail-
able at all voting sites for those
who cannot enter the polling
location due to age or physical
disability.
Voting sites have designated
parking indicating curbside vot-
ing and will have an alert sys-
tem that will notify the election
officials. An election official will
come to the vehicle to obtain
the voter's name and address.
Before a ballot is issued, the
voter must swear an oath affirm-
ing his or her qualification to
use curbside voting.
During early voting, voters can
go to the Cumberland County
Board of Elections at 227 Foun-
tainhead Lane in Fayetteville
to cast their ballots. e poll is
open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
On Oct. 30, the poll is open
from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
On Election Day, Nov. 2, there
will be six polling locations
which will be open from 6:30
a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
For those who live in the
Cumberland 1A, 03 and 04 pre-
cincts, the polling location is E.
Melvin Honeycutt Elementary
School.
For those who live in the Hope
Mills 1A precinct, the polling
location is at the Hope Mills
Recreation Center.
For those who live in Hope
Mills 1A or Hope Mills 1B pre-
cincts, the polling location will
be the Cotton Fire Department.
For those who live in the Hope
Mills 3, Pearces Mill 2A and
Pearces Mill 2B precincts, the
polling location will be at the
Hope Mills Middle School.
For those who live in the Hope
Mills 4 precinct, the polling
location will be at C. Wayne Col-
lier Elementary School.
For those who live in the
Stoney Point 1 or Stoney Point 2
precincts, the polling locations
will be at the Lighthouse Baptist
Church.
If you don't know your
precinct, look it up at www.
cumberlandcountync.gov/de-
partments/election-group/elec-
tions/resources/polling-sites or
call the elections office at 910-
678-7733.
e last day to hand deliver an
absentee ballot will be Nov. 2 at
5 p.m. at the Board of Elections
office. Absentee ballots that will
be sent by mail must be post-
marked by Nov. 2 and the Board
of Elections must receive it no
later than Nov. 5.
Hope Mills election kicks off
with early voting
by HANNAH LEE
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