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News Tip: Duke Experts Available to Comment on Election Results

Today North Carolina voters cast their ballots on controversial amendment

North Carolina voters go to the polls today to vote in nine statewide races and on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions.Kerry L. HaynieAssociate professor, political scienceCo-director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciencesklhaynie@duke.eduSpecializes in state politics, African-American politics, Southern politics, and race and poverty issues.Michael MungerProfessor, political sciencemunger@duke.eduSpecializes in congressional-presidential elections. Libertarian candidate for N.C. governor in 2008. Janie LongDirector, Duke's Center for LGBT Lifejanie.long@duke.eduLong serves as a fellow at the Rockway Institute for LGBT Research and Public Policy and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies. Watch video of Long discussing why she's opposed to the amendment and is concerned about its passage.Kathryn Webb BradleyProfessor of the Practice of Lawkbradley@law.duke.eduBradley teaches classes on legal ethics and family law.