Early voting started Thursday at the N.C. Cooperative Extension Office on Caroline Street in Rockingham and runs until June 4. This election is for the the Republican primary for the 9th District of the U.S. House of Representatives and the nonpartisan N.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice, according to Connie Kelly, county elections director. Unaffiliated voters may choose to vote in the Republican primary, but Democrats and Libertarians can only vote the nonpartisan ballot, she added.