Miss Reavis, Carroll County's voter registration official, told the Board of Supervisors she is requesting permanent relocations for two longstanding polling places — Carroll County Middle School and Gladeville Elementary — citing safety and accessibility problems that recur during elections.

"We don't have an ADA compliant spot to go," Miss Reavis said about the middle school, noting that the room previously used had two different floor levels and once led to a poll worker injury that required surgery. She said the alternative gym disrupts classes and a front-entrance option is only available when school is out.

For the middle school the registrar proposed Hillsville Christian Church's fellowship hall, which the church board has approved and for which a nearby funeral home has agreed to share parking when needed. For Gladeville Elementary she proposed Mount Olivet Church on the four-lane near Hills Trucking, about two miles — roughly three minutes — from the existing site.

Miss Reavis described operational constraints at Gladeville: reliance on the gym with no usable front-room alternate, inconsistent heating and cooling in summer elections, and a parking area occupied by school buses and charging stations that prevents creating an ADA-compliant temporary parking space.

She explained the formal process to make relocations permanent: either a public-notice and comment period or a request to the Department of Justice; both routes can take at least two months and require mailing new voter notices and conducting outreach so voters understand the change.

A board member asked whether a separate state police investigation into party misidentification had been initiated; Miss Reavis said the electoral board requested a state police investigation.

What happens next: The board did not announce a decision at the meeting. If the board approves a relocation it will trigger the public-notice timeline or a DOJ review and require mailed notices to affected voters.