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The official election day is November 4 this year, but UNT students, faculty, and staff who live in Denton County will have an opportunity to beat the crowds and vote early in the November 4, 2014 General Election without even leaving the Denton campus. Other voters from the community who are registered in Denton County will also be allowed to vote early on the UNT Denton campus.<\/p>\r\n
From Monday, October 27 to Friday, October 31 the UNT Libraries, in cooperation with the Denton County Elections Administration<\/a>, will host an early voting booth in Room 142 of Sycamore Hall<\/a>. The voting area will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Visitors can park on campus<\/a> for a fee.<\/p>\r\n A Voter\u2019s Guide<\/a> from the League of Women Voters of Denton<\/a> is available to help you become a more responsible voter by learning about the candidates and issues being voted on. Some of the more contentious local issues include an initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing<\/a> (fracking) within Denton city limits, and a local option to allow the sale of all alcoholic beverages<\/a>, including mixed drinks, in Denton. There are also several bond programs<\/a> coming up for a vote.<\/p>\r\n Learn more about the upcoming elections at the Denton County Elections<\/a> site and the Texas Elections Division<\/a> Web site.<\/p>\r\n Don\u2019t forget that now that a new Texas voter I.D. law<\/a> has been passed and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>, you must now present one of the following forms of photo identification in order to vote:<\/p>\r\n Information about voter registration, voting rights, special needs, and other issues related to voting in Texas is available at the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s VoteTexas.gov<\/a> page.<\/p>\r\n Contact\u00a0Julie Leuzinger<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\r\n Article by Bobby Griffith.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official election day is November 4 this year, but UNT students, faculty, and staff who live in Denton County will have an opportunity to beat the crowds and vote early in the November 4, 2014 General Election without even leaving the Denton campus. Other voters from the community who are registered in Denton County… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[291,290],"tags":[151,148,149,147,150,152,146],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-doings","category-make-a-difference","tag-alcoholic_beverages","tag-denton","tag-early_voting","tag-elections","tag-fracking","tag-voter_id","tag-voting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5tTx0-30","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Candidates and Issues<\/h3>\r\n
Don\u2019t Forget Your I.D.<\/h3>\r\n
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Vote Texas<\/h3>\r\n