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53 <br />PRIMARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTED IN THE GENERAL <br />ELECTION BYALL VOTERS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN ORANGE <br />COUNTY <br />• INDIVIDUALS SEEKING ELECTION TO THE BOARD OF <br />COMMISSIONERS IN EACH DISTRICT MUST RESIDE IN THE <br />DISTRICT IN WHICH HE /SHE WISHES TO BE ELECTED <br />• INDIVIDUALS SEEKING ELECTION IN EACH DISTRICT WILL BE <br />ELECTED IN THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS TO REPRESENT <br />EA CH PAR TY RECOGNIZED IN NORTH CAROLINA BY THE <br />VOTERS WHO RESIDE IN THAT DISTRICT <br />• SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WHO SURVIVE TO REPRESENT <br />HIS/HER PARTY WILL BE ELECTED TO SERVE ON THE BOCC <br />BYALL ELIGIBLE VOTERS IN ORANGE COUNTY <br />• THE FIRST ELECTION FOR WHICH THIS DISTRICT ELECTION <br />SYSTEM WILL APPLY WILL BE IN 2008 <br />• IN THE 2008 ELECTION, TWO DISTRICTS WILL ELECT <br />MEMBERS TO SERVE THROUGH THE PRIMARY AND GENERAL <br />ELECTIONS. <br />• IN THE 2008 ELECTION, TWO AT LARGE MEMBERS WILL BE <br />ELECTED WITH THE PERSONRECEMNG THE HIGHEST <br />NUMBER OF VOTES SERVING A FULL FOUR YEAR TERM. <br />THE PERSON RECEIVING THE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF <br />VOTES WILL SERVEA TWO YEAR TERM AND MUST STAND <br />FOR ELECTION AGAIN IN 2010 FOR A FULL FOUR YEAR TERM <br />NOTE: THE SAME DISTRICT MAP, WHEN DRAWN CAN APPLY TO <br />EACH OR THE ABOVE DISTRICT OPTIONS AND WILL BE DRAWN <br />WITHIN NINE MONTHS AFTER THE COMMISSIONERS SELECT <br />ONE MODEL FOR IMPLEMENTATION. <br />OPTION # 3 FIVE MEMBER BOARD WITH TWO DISTRICTS -ONE <br />DISTRICT WITH TWO MEMBERS AND AN_ OTHER WITH THREE <br />MEMBERS <br />• THERE WILL BE TWO MULTI - MEMBER DISTRICTS <br />• ONE DISTRICT WILL INCLUDE THE FIVE NORTHERNMOST <br />TOWNSHIPS AND WILL HAVE TWO MEMBERS WHO WILL BE <br />NOMINATED IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS BY THE VOTERS WHO <br />RESIDE IN THOSE TOWNSHIPS AND ELECTED IN THE <br />