N Carolina candidates rush for legislature, Meadows` seat
(World News USA)

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Candidate filing for the 2020 election cycle in North Carolina closed on Friday with a rush of electoral hopefuls seeking spots in the General Assembly and a congressional seat in the mountains. The State Board of Elections and election boards in all 100 counties stopped taking at midday for ballots that will be chock-full of races in a presidential year. North Carolina`s electorate also will vote for governor, a U.S. Senate seat and members of the U.S. House. The other nine Council of State positions will be on the ballot, as well as three of the seven positions on the state Supreme Court, scores of other judgeships and all 170 General Assembly seats. Ten additional...