Early voting update: Twice as many NC votes now have been cast than this time in 2016
About 163,000 votes were cast in person across North Carolina on Saturday, bringing the total to 828,456 in the state.
That total is more than double the amount of people in North Carolina who had gone to the polls at this time in the 2016 election.
Saturday’s total is about 136% higher than the 68,893 ballots cast on the first Saturday of 2016, according to Wake County Board of Elections member Gerry Cohen.
More sites are available this year and the hours are longer, so increased availability means more people are getting to the polls to vote early, Cohen said.
There’s also heightened interest and a lot more information being pushed to residents about early voting sites than there was in 2016, particularly on social media, he said.
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