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Forsyth County addresses election misinformation with education

A person holds a sticker after placing his vote in Durham County in the 2018 primary. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

When early voting for the 2022 primary begins Thursday, some Forsyth County residents will have a better understanding of how this election will work. 

Forsyth County Elections Director Tim Tsujii says the best thing his office can do to combat misinformation is to promote voter education. Last summer the organization hosted an election academy that explained how things work at the county level.

"It was a six-week program that invited just regular residents of the county to participate and to learn more of the behind-the-scenes work that is conducted and handled here at the board of elections office,” he explains. "Because a lot of that work is largely out of view.”

Tsujii says he plans to make the academy an annual program. He says anyone with questions about how elections work in North Carolina can also find information on the North Carolina State Board of Elections website.

Voting officials across the country have been the subject of threats and intimidation tactics since the 2020 election. Tsujii says no one in the Forsyth County office has been targeted.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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