{"id":316457,"date":"2026-10-28T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316457\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:52:08","slug":"early-voting-will-end-saturday-over-5400-ballots-cast-the-taylorsville-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316457\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting will end Saturday, over 5,400 ballots cast \u2013 The Taylorsville Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A total of 5,466 Alexander County voters have cast ballots through Tuesday, October 27, since in-person Early Voting for the 2026 General Election began on Thursday, October 15.<br \/>Early Voting runs from 8:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. through Friday, October 30. On Saturday, October 31, hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The early voting sites are: CVCC Alexander Applied Technologies Center (230 Industrial Blvd., Taylorsville), Bethlehem Community Fire &amp; Rescue (7373 NC Hwy. 127, Taylorsville), and Hiddenite Fire Department (4975 NC Hwy. 90 E, Hiddenite).<\/p>\n<p>Early Voting versus Election Day Voting<\/p>\n<p>During the early voting period, voters may cast a ballot at any of the three early voting sites, and would-be voters may same-day register and vote. This is different than Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, where registered voters must vote at their assigned polling place. Same-day registration is only available during the early voting period and is not available on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>To find your Election Day polling place, call the Board of Elections, 828-632-2990, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/alexandercountync.gov\/departments\/board-of-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/alexandercountync.gov\/departments\/board-of-elections\/<\/a>, or consult the table below.<\/p>\n<p>    Precinct Name Address   Bethlehem 1 Precinct Shiloh Lutheran Church 1011 Shiloh Church Rd., Hickory, NC 28601   Bethlehem 2 Precinct Bethlehem Community Fire\/Rescue 7373 NC Hwy. 127, Taylorsville, NC 28681   Ellendale Precinct St. Luke Lutheran Church 1364 Church Rd., Taylorsville, NC 28681   Gwaltney 1 2 Precinct Hiddenite Fire Station #2 4472 Cheatham Ford Road, Hiddenite, NC 28636   Little River Sugar Loaf Precinct Little River Community Building 2141 Little River Church Rd., Taylorsville, NC 28681   Millers Precinct Drumstand Community Building 7830 Paul Payne Store Rd., Taylorsville, NC 28681   Sharpes 1 2 Precinct Hiddenite Fire Department 4975 NC Hwy. 90 East, Hiddenite, NC 28636   Taylorsville 1 4 5 Precinct Alexander Senior Center 730 7th Street SW, Taylorsville, NC 28681   Taylorsville 2 3 Precinct Alexander County YMCA 260 Black Oak Ridge Road, Taylorsville, NC 28681   Wittenburg Precinct Friendship Lutheran Church 5300 Church Rd., Taylorsville, NC 28681    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-candidate-list.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-267639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-candidate-list.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"875\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of 5,466 Alexander County voters have cast ballots through Tuesday, October 27, since in-person Early Voting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-316457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}