This morning I pulled in data for the first nine days of early voting (through Friday) in North Carolina and did a breakdown of Democratic primary in person (one-stop, the statute calls them) early voters by race, also breaking down by whether the voters themselves were D or U. NC allows unaffiliated to vote in either primary but does not allow party crossovers.
Of the Democrats, 42% were Black, 55% White, 1% Native American, the remaining 2% were Asian, other, multi-race, or did not list a race.
Of the Unaffiliated 16% were Black, 78% White, 1% Native American, the remaining 4% were Asian, other, multi-race, or did not list a race.
Of the total pool of early voters in the Democratic primary, 38% were Black, 59% White, 1% Native American, the remaining 2% were Asian, other, multi-race, or did not list a race.
NC has a file on absentee and early voters
ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/enrs/absentee05xx06xx2008.zip that is updated every morning at 6:01 am covering cumulative totals at close of business the previous day.
As noted below, in the major urban areas, multiple early voting sites do not open until this weekend, so the minority numbers might be rising.
This morning I pulled in data for the first nine days of early voting (through Friday) and did a breakdown of Democratic primary in person (one-stop, the statute calls them) early voters by race, also breaking down by whether the voters themselves were D or U. NC allows unaffiliated to vote in either primary but does not allow party crossovers.
Of the 99,750 Democratic primary early voters as of Tuesday, 84,147 were registered Democrats, 15,603 were unaffiliated.
Of the Democrats, 42% were Black, 55% White, 1% Native American, the remaining 2% were Asian, other, multi-race, or did not list a race.
Of the Unaffiliated 16% were Black, 78% White, 1% Native American, the remaining 4% were Asian, other, multi-race, or did not list a race.
Of the total pool of early voters in the Democratic primary, 38% were Black, 59% White, 1% Native American, the remaining 2% were Asian, other, multi-race, or did not list a race.
Interestingly, I did the same run Wednesday morning for the first 66,000 early voters, and EVERY percentage was IDENTICAL when rounded to a whole number.
In addition to the 99,750 Democratic primary voters, 22,385 voted in the Republican primary (there is a hot GOP gubernatorial primary). Of those, 19,628 were registered Republicans, and 2,757 were unaffiliated voters.
In addition 362 unaffiliated voters showed up, decided not to vote in either party primary, and got a ballot for nonpartisan judicial primaries and some local referenda.
Total early voters so far: 122,497
NC Early voting continues through May 3. In addition, in the major four largest cities (Raleigh, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro)early voting has been limited one site (the courthouse or a site nearby and expands out to 9-15 sites per county this weekend) so numbers from these areas will spike soon. (Raleigh and Winston-Salem will even have Sunday hours this weekend) The one site for those counties was so they could process all the new registration that came in at the deadline and have accurate early voting pollbooks. Wake County (Raleigh) has 15,000 new registration just in the 4 days before the April 11 regular registration deadline.
You need to use an Access database, just exclude Civilian, Military, and Overseas (they are all mail-in), just use One Stop. The left hand party column DEM, REP, and UNA are the party of the voter. The right hand party column is the party the voter voted in, so the UNAs are reallocated to DEM, REP, and UNA (some UNAs chose just the nonpartisan judgeship ballot). Race columns are WHITE, BLACK, ASIAN, AMERICAN INDIAN, AND SEVERAL TYPES OF "OTHER" CATEGORIES.