Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online that Wendell Williamson, famous for gunning down two people in downtown Chapel Hill in 1995, is one of the mental patients who has cast an election ballot this year after ramped-up efforts to register voters at state mental hospitals and facilities for the developmentally disabled.

John Hood’s Daily Journal turns to North Carolina history for an example of the possibility of concord, union, and compromise during heated political debates.