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North Carolina Special Election: Voters Head to the Polls

Primary voters in North Carolina are going to the polls Tuesday, looking to thin a field of more than two dozen candidates who are running to replace Walter B. Jones Jr., a longtime congressman who died in February. Jones, a Republican, had held the seat in the 3rd Congressional District on the Atlantic Coast from 1995 until his death.

Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Eastern. As of Friday, about 4% of voters had already cast early votes.

First results, usually of early voting, are expected shortly after polls close.

If no candidate receives more than 30% of the vote Tuesday, the candidate who receives the second-highest number of votes may demand a second primary, which would take place July 9.

Voters here lean heavily Republican. President Donald Trump won the district by 24 percentage points in 2016.

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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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