This weekend Wake County made a descision to make the early voting site at Pullen Arts Center open seven days a week from today through Sat. Nov. 1.

This is a change from the original schedule, where the Arts Center was open Thur., Oct. 23 through Nov. 1.

The Wake County Board of Elections has numerous sites across Wake county that are open for early voting. Located in Pullen Park, the Pullen Art Center is a prime location for N.C. State students to vote.

The Board of Elections encourages all voters to consider voting early.

Some students will take advantage of early voting while others will not. One early voter, Catherine Guess, a sophomore in zoology, said that she will be voting early, but she is not sure when.

Joe Fulk, a sophomore in engineering said that he will be voting early as well, but not at the Pullen Arts Center.

“I’m going to early vote, but not here. I’m going to early vote at home so I can actually vote in my home county’s politics,” Fulk said.

All the voting centers in Wake County are going to be open on election day, Tue. Nov. 4, from 7:30a.m. until 7:30p.m.

Pullen Arts Center will also be open on election day.

Some students have decided not to early vote in favor of voting on election day.

“I’m probably not going to do early voting. I should be able to make it on election day,” said Drew Brisley, a freshman in design.

However, not all students plan on voting early. Both Lucia Moser, a freshman in textiles, and Alex Moosman, an undecided freshman, will wait until election day to cast their vote.

And not all students understand what early voting entails — Laura Smith, a freshman in education said that she, “heard, but didn’t understand” early voting.

Early voting is the process in which voters can cast their vote on a single of series of days prior to an election.

In the case of Wake County, early voting will run from now until Nov. 1.

Some students think that because they didn’t register to vote means that they can’t vote, but all of the voting centers in Wake County offer one-stop voting — where a voter goes to the voting center, fills out a voter regisitration form and provides proof of residency to the election official.

However, those people deciding to do one stop voting can only vote at the location that they fill out the registation forms.

David Milbern, freshman in business, didn’t register to vote. “[One stop voting] is a good alternative. I didn’t know my Raleigh address at the time [of registration],” he said.