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With new, stricter and controversial election rules in other states, North Carolina keeps the more open election standards that facilitated a record vote in 2008, says Election Board Director Gary Bartlett. He tells host Barlow Herget that the turnout will be even bigger than the 4.3 million who voted in 2008, more than half from early voting that begins 17 days before the Nov. 6 Election. Find out more.

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John Hood, president of the conservative think-tank John Locke Foundation, has written a new book, "Our Best Foot Forward," that outlines his ideas to host Barlow Herget for getting North Carolina's struggling economy back on track.  What Hood writes may be state economic policy if Republicans maintain control of the state legislature and win the governor's office.  It's easy Labor Day listening.