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May 10, 2019 LUMBERTON — The do-over of a congressional election that garnered national attention has been a yawner so far in Robeson County with just Tuesday left to cast a ballot. According to the Robeson County Board of Elections, just 128 ballots had been cast during early voting for the District 9 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives through Thursday. There were 18 at the Pembroke satellite site, and 110 at the elections office on Walnut Street in Lumberton. Those totals do not include any ballots cast Friday, the final day of early voting. The big reason for the depressed vote in Robeson County is there is no competitive race for the Democratic nomination, with Dan McCready, who almost won election in November, getting a free pass to the Sept. 10 general election. That means more than 43,000 registered Democrats in Robeson County are not eligible to vote. Jeff Scott of the Libertarian Party, and Allen Smith of the Green Party also got free passes to the general election. But there are 10 Republican candidates from which 9,000 registered Republicans in Robeson County and around 17,000 unaffiliated voters can pick. They can do so on Tuesday within their own precincts, from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. There is one change to traditional poll sites. North Pembroke Precinct voters are to cast ballots at the Pembroke Rural Fire Department, located at 1398 Prospect Road. The normal polling site, the Indian Education Building, is still under renovation. Voters in Britts Precinct and Lumberton 11A (Clybourn Pines), who had been displaced to other voting sites, will return to their traditional sites. In Britt’s, that is the Britt’s Township (Old) Fire Department Building, which is at 9495 N.C. 72 East, and in Lumberton 11A, that is the Soaring Eagle Tribal Building, which is at 422 Norment Road. The do-over

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