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CHARLOTTE -- Election Day is still months away but the political season is already starting to take shape.

Candidates for municipal and school board seats started filing for office Monday at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections. Two of the higher-profile races this year will be for the Charlotte and Matthews mayoral seats. Both Pat McCrory and Lee Myers decided not to seek re-election.

County elections director Michael Dickerson says he is curious about this first post-President Obama election season.

"Is the interest there equal to a degree of what we had from last year? Last year was just a phenomenal interest -- blew all of our records out of the water as far as our records of people voting early and people voting, period,” he said.

Filing closes at noon Friday, July 17.

Charlotte's first primary is Sept. 15 and Election Day is Nov. 3.