Early voting starts today for Charlotte’s city elections.
If you’re like me, you’ve found it frustrating to try to find information from reliable sources about candidates for office. In democracies, it’s important that people vote. It’s especially important that people cast informed votes.
Today, The Charlotte Ledger is helping you do that. For the first time, we’re launching what we’re calling The Ledger’s Charlotte City Council Election Hub. It’s like a voter guide, but we’re calling it a “hub” because we think it’s more inclusive: Unlike other local voter guides, we’re supplying links to other reputable media and reliable sources so you can glean as much information as possible in helping you decide how to vote.
You’ll note it also has no advertising of any kind — no pop-up ads or auto-play videos. It is available to anyone who would like to read it.
🎥 Video interviews: The Hub includes short video interviews with 18 candidates — including 8 incumbents — which we conducted last week among those who attended a candidates’ reception we co-hosted with the Charlotte Area Chamber of Commerce and CLT Public Relations. (Thanks to our partners on that, and to The Ledger’s Lindsey Banks and CLT Public Relations’ Righteous Keitt for filming.)
Like a lot of things we do, the Charlotte City Council Election Hub is an experiment. We’ll assess after the Sept. 12 primary to see if it makes sense to expand to include items on the ballot in November — school board races and the school bond referendum — and whether we should provide something similar for local races in 2024.
If you have feedback on how we might improve the Hub, email me at [email protected] and let me know.
We’ll update the Hub as more information comes in, and we’ll sprinkle bits of information for voters in our newsletters between now and the primary election on Sept. 12.
Happy voting!
Tony MeciaThe Charlotte Ledger
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