The number of early voting sites in Watauga County could be reduced. The only available sites would be at the ASU campus, convenient to students who know a lot more about economics than farmers, blue-collar workers, or industrialists; and possibly the board of elections office in downtown Boone. The number of sites depends upon the state’s release of federal funds. Call me brain-dead, but the reasons given for the federal government availing the funds, and for the state releasing them, make no sense.