The Neighborhood Resource Center on Jackson Street will be used as a general election polling place on November 6.

Halifax County Board of Elections Director Kristin Scott also said today the center will be used for one-stop voting  — commonly called early voting — beginning with the primaries for the 2020 election season.

This comes after city council approved a contract with the county board of elections at its Tuesday night meeting.

Scott said re-establishing a one-stop site in Roanoke Rapids will most likely open the opportunity to have an early voting site in the southern end of the county although a specific location has not been determined.

Depending on the budget, Scott said there could also be the likelihood that additional one-stop sites could open as well beginning with the 2020 election cycle.

In a memo included in Tuesday’s agenda package, City Manager Joseph Scherer noted the contract would allow the board of elections to use the center as both a one-stop site and election day location as needed. “This is the same basic contract we have with the (board of elections) for other city voting locations,” he wrote in the memo.

The decision leading to the resource center not being available for the May 8 primary was tied to a decision allowing NCWorks to use the building until a new home was finished, city officials and Scott said at the time.