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Irene
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Veteran, Immigrant, American, wife to BHE (BestHusbandEver), LGBTQ+ Ally, Margaret's Hooman.
Cumberland County, NC Board of Elections, Chair
#PowerOutage - again. Thankfully #BHE ( #BestHusbandEver) has managed to connect the router to the kitchen (which the #solarpanels are powering) and so we have food & entertainment!!!
#LumbeeRiverEMC #solarenergy #solarpower #entertainment #CumberlandCountyNC #LREMC
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Polls open at 6:30a today in #Fayetteville, #HopeMills, #SpringLake, #Linden, #Wade, #Stedman, #Godwin, #Falcon, and #Eastover. They will remain open until 7:30p - Go vote Cumberland County! #vote #CumberlandCountyNC #municipalelection #election #municipalelection2025
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Tonight's #NCSBE statement is very disappointing.Our duty is to remain factual, nonpartisan and composed-no matter what any party says. This is a moment for calm leadership & focus on what truly matters: safe, fair elections in #NorthCarolina #ncpol #elections
November 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Primary Election Day for the City of Fayetteville is today! Polls are open until 7:30 p.m. #vote #municipalprimary2025 #MunicipalPrimary #fayettevillenc #pollsareopen #ncpol
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Thank you to #CumberlandCountyNCSheriffsDepartment who helped #BHE (BestHusbandEver) and me today out of what could have become a hairy situation. Special thanks to Deputy M. who is the one that responded...she was polite, kind, calm & professional.
October 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Dodged a *major* bullet 2night as an #Airbnb host. Booking for 1ad/3kids. 6cars & 18ppl show up-party commences.Thanks to the #AirbnbSafetyTeam + #CCSD, it shut down safely.
Takeaways: Safetyteam rocks; document *everything; stick to your rules; stay calm. #airbnbhost #hostlife #cumberlandcountync
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
October 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Sitting on a plane in #CLT (on route to #SFO) and #AA tech is glitching - so far we are an hour into waiting! #flightdelay #travel #airtravel
September 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
August 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
#CumberlandCounty nonpartisan primary is 10/7. #EarlyVoting: 9/18–10/4 at #BOE office (M-F, 8–5). Absentee ballots mail 9/5. View your sample ballot now: vt.ncsbe.gov/reglkup/ #municipalelections #ncpol
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August 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Per NCSBE data request from @BryanAnderson, here's the form that's about to go out to 82,737 NC voters who need to update their registration in order to avoid having to cast a provisional ballot. #ncpol
August 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🚨 Early Voting Plans🚨 The #NCSB will meet 8/27 @ 9a to consider non-unanimous early voting plans. #NCSBE #EarlyVoting #NCelections #ncpol #elections #CCBOE
August 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Orange County NC has posted the early voting schedule for Nov 4 municipal elections (including Chapel Hill and Carrboro) 5 sites, all open 2 Saturdays and 1 Sunday. Hillsborough 15 days of voting, other 4 sites open 10 days www.orangecountync.gov/DocumentCent... (UNC Fall Break is Oct 16-19)
August 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
#StateAuditor Dave Boliek at the @NCSBE summer conference sharing how #Florida is the “gold standard” in #elections (the implication being that @NC is not) #ncpol #vote #elections
July 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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North Carolina Republicans want to make it illegal for election officials to encourage people to vote.

The move is “basically always unconstitutional under the First Amendment,” says Andrew Garber of @brennancenter.org.

More from @jenrice.bsky.social:

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...
Don’t Say Vote: NC GOPers Want to Bar Election Officials From Encouraging Turnout
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wasn’t an American citizen until 1988. She gave birth to Don Junior in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984. — Let’s cancel their birthright citizenship first.
June 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The #NChouse is considering a bill which (among other awful things) would prohibit board of elections members from encouraging people to vote... #ncpol #HB958 #BoardofElections
June 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Slotkin is good here. And Hegseth feels he doesn't have to answer a Democratic woman senator's questions.
SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way?

HEGSETH: What is that based on?

SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.
June 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So, I designed & made this banner- “People,Places,Love–Belong Anywhere” stitched into the background.It’ll hang @ events, and in my #Airbnb -and even at our local quilt show next week!Prototype for now… but more to come. #QuiltArt #BelongAnywhere #AirbnbStyle #QuiltShow #hostlife #quilt
June 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM