NC Voting Update: October 28

[moose65]

October 15 was the first day of Early Voting in NC. After the sites closed on Tuesday, October 27, here are the updated totals:

Mail-in ballots received: 819,363
Early voting (13 days): 2,812,202

Total: 3,631,565

Party breakdown of those who have voted:

Democratic: 1,423,590
Republican: 1,122,985
Unaffiliated: 1,068,317
Libertarian/Green/Constitution: 16,673

49.5% of registered voters have already voted.

We have now reached 76.1% of the 2016 votes cast.

We have also surpassed the number of early and mail-in votes from 2016 by almost 485,000, with 4 days of Early Voting to go.

54.6% of the registered Democrats in NC have already voted.

Source: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/NC.html

[Sherman A1]

1. Super

[lagomorph777]

2. Encouraging to see such huge increase in turnout.

Keep it up!

Thanks for reporting!

[idziak4ever1234]

3. What do you make of the 58% return rate for Democrats?

[LisaL]

4. Looks like NC allows people to vote in person if they change their mind about voting

absentee. But unless these people plan to do that, they need to turn in their ballots ASAP.
https://carolinapublicpress.org/37245/faq-voting-nc-2020/

[beachbumbob]

5. The secret is in the unaffiliated voters and how they split out BUT

data suggest a great number of younger voters choose no party and are supporters of biden and democrats in a 3-1 scenario. If we had age demographic break out, we could have an idea on Bidens lead in EV going into Election Day.

[idziak4ever1234]

6. Will Democrats turn out on Election Day is another question.

[beachbumbob]

8. They did in 2018, no reason to think these voters won't now

[Amishman]

7. Yup, unaffiliated voters put Trump over the top in 2016, and they're going to kick him out now

If this plays out as expected, there are lessons to be learned from that.