Townsend-Ingram and her colleagues were out at the 2023 Juneteenth Festival of the Carolinas to help people register to vote and learn about the new requirements. “To quote Coretta Scott King, ‘You have to win freedom in every generation,’” said Yvette Townsend-Ingram of Mecklenburg County Democratic Party’s African American Caucus. But in April, the new Republican-controlled Court revisited the decision, ultimately overturning it and reenacting the ID requirements as early as this year’s municipal elections. In December, a Democratic-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court upheld a decision that blocked the voter ID requirement, citing the rule was racially discriminatory. They’ll hold a virtual meeting at 11 a.m., Monday to discuss two proposed temporary rules that detail how election officials can verify the legitimacy of photo IDs for both in-person and absentee voters. Atlantic Ave.NORTH CAROLINA ( QUEEN CITY NEWS) - The North Carolina State Board of Elections is giving voters the chance to voice their opinions about new rules that outline how voting officials will implement the new photo identification requirement during elections. ![]() was deemed safe for reentry on Tuesday, Nov. *Opus Condominium located at 2071 South Atlantic Ave., was deemed safe for reentry on Monday, Nov. Atlantic Ave., was deemed safe for reentry on Monday, Nov. Atlantic Ave., was deemed safe for reentry on Saturday, Nov. Atlantic Ave., was deemed safe for reentry on Sunday, Nov. *Castaways Beach Resort, located at 2043 S. Residents of the following structures were urged Saturday to not re-enter them until the Daytona Beach Shores CBO deems them safe: Until the engineer determines a given building is safe, the only people allowed inside would be those associated with the engineer’s assessment, according to Daytona Beach Shores police. The city announced Friday that structures deemed unsafe by the CBO will need to be inspected by a structural engineer retained by the condo association or owner. ![]() ![]() Evacuations were conducted in Daytona Beach Shores Wednesday and Thursday. Nicole made landfall early Thursday in North Hutchinson Island as a Category 1 hurricane, putting some Daytona Beach Shores homes in the ocean as the storm’s rain, wind and rough surf commanded widespread beach erosion. There were safe places for the evacuees to go, Fowler said, such as the shelters provided by Volusia County. Now they have re-entered against the order of the CBO and they are expecting us to come into unsafe buildings to assist them.” We needed nearly 150 officers and deputies to go door to door to evacuate them as conditions deteriorated and their properties were at risk of structural collapse. “There was a mandatory evacuation order of the entire beachside during the storm, and hundreds of people ignored it. “These people defying the order to vacate are unnecessarily putting our first responders lives at risk,” Fowler said. Providing a list of 23 structures ranging in height from one floor to 22 stories, Fowler said that no emergency services would be provided within the buildings because anyone still inside them has been ignoring evacuation orders. ![]() – Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Director Michael Fowler on Saturday held a news conference at a resort on South Atlantic Avenue, where he updated a list of local buildings deemed unsafe and uninhabitable by the city’s chief building official (CBO) after Hurricane Nicole.
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