Susan Campbell joins elections board
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
The Forsyth County
Board of Elections (BOE)
swore in a new member,
approved a budget and
heard about a primary it
may hold for six voters
during its meeting on
Thursday, April 27.
It began with Susan
Campbell taking the oath
of office to replace
Fleming El-Amin, who is
now a county commission
er. She was chosen by the
Forsyth County
Democratic Party to fill
what is currently the only
Democratic seat on the
three-member board.
Campbell, a Florida
native and former teacher,
has served in various
capacities with the local
Democratic Party for 17
years, including as party
chair. Campbell has been a
frequent attendee and
speaker at BOE meetings.
“It’s an honor to be sit
ting on this side of the
table,” said Campbell.
Charlie Wilson, who’s
also a regular attendee at
BOE meetings, praised the
appointment.
“I think I speak on
behalf of so many people
in the city and county that
we’re glad to see you sit
ting on that side of the
table,” said Wilson. “And
we’re glad because we
know you’re the personifi
cation of fairness, and we
know that you have a
dogged determination to
seek rational solutions to
Campbell
serious issues and prob
lems.”
Her first vote was
approving a 2017-2018
budget of nearly $1.3 mil
lion, which is a 3.7 percent
increase, to begin on July
1. This covers the munici
pal elections outside of
Winston-Salem this year
and a countywide primary
in 2018. It also has money
for a possible special pri
mary and election this year
for the state General
Assembly and U.S. House
of Representatives because
of redistricting.
The budget does not
include the money to pur
chase new voting equip
ment, which is in a sepa
rate county fund. BOEs are
required by the state to
have a paper ballot-based
voting system by Jan. 1,
2018. In Forsyth County,
this will take the form of
new touch screen voting
machines that will produce
paper ballots. BOE Director
Tim Tsuji also made the
board aware of a “unique
situation” in the fall munic
ipal elections. There are six
registered High Point vot
ers who reside in the part
of the city that’s in Forsyth
County. None of the
municipalities in Forsyth
with elections this year
have primaries, but High
Point does hold one for its
municipal elections. Thus,
the board may have to
open one polling place for
those six voters during the
High Point primary in
September.
The current BOE board
will serve until this sum
mer. Under current law,
both parties will choose
people to fill the seats,
which can include reap
pointing current board
members, for a new term
that’ll start in July. It will
have two Democratic
members, since the current
governor is a Democrat.
Campbell has said she def
initely wants to continue
serving on the board.
However, the General
Assembly recently passed
--i-s-m
a Dill to move uie new icim
for BOEs to June, and it
would make BOEs evenly
split- between parties,
which would give local
BOEs four members. Gov.
Roy Cooper immediately
sued over the law after his
veto was overridden, and a
court has temporally
blocked it.
The N'.C. Republican
Party has listed Forsyth
County BOE chair Ken
Raymond as someone they
want on the new, evenly
split N.C. BOE. Raymond
said he was honored by the
nomination and believed if
the new law did go into
effect, it would create more
bi-partisan boards.
Cooper’s lawyers argued
that the evenly spit boards
would create gridlock.
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