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• 6 Departmental Report 'Orange County Board of Elections Page 3 Current legislation and court decisions are making more and more demands of election administrators - requiring that we do more for more people and do it in less time than ever before. For example, Congress recently passed a law requiring that every polling place in the nation be accessible to the handi- capped-by 1986. Needless to say, few of the polling places in Orange County meet this requirement. Forth Carolina does have a general statute which allows aged and disabled voters to vote outside the voting enclosure and may have a bearing on the implementation of this law. Approximately two-hundred Orange County voters cast their ballot at "curb-side" in the November election. Legislation will be considered to minimize the early media projections by simultaneously closing the polls in presidential elections. They will consider national voter registration and extending voting hours to a twenty-four hour period to increase voter turn- out. AU of these changes will effect the e?ation process in Orange County, as will the change in the context of the Board in July. We are now in the process of purging the voter registration rolls of those per- sons who have not voted in one of the two most recent successive presidential elections, or in any other election conducted in the period between the two. Municipal elections for the towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough will be held in November; filing begins in August and special registration events in September. In January of 1986 filing will begin for all county offices for the . Nay 1986 primaries. -Here we go again! The election process is alive and well in Orange County!