North Carolina now has had a record 1,479,270 in person early votes, as 195,003 more votes were cast Tuesday at 357 locations, besting the previous daily high of 182,518. The final 2004 total was 984,294. The final 2008 number should exceed 2 million. Early voting ends Saturday afternoon.
UPDATE 10:20 pm EDT: 210,925 more early votes cast Wednesday.
Blacks made up 26.33% of the Tuesday total, down from the 26.87% who voted early Monday. Both numbers greatly exceed the 21.4% of registered voters who are Black. Already, 32.96% of Black registered voters in North Carolina have voted early, compared with 19.61% of Whites. 29.37% of the registered Democrats have already voted, compared with 19.42% of the registered Republicans.
100,089 Democrats voted Tuesday compared with 97,459 Monday, while 59,148 Republicans cast votes Tuesday up from the 52,428 of Monday. 51,350 Blacks voted Tuesday compared with 50,453 Monday.
For 2008, here is a breakdown by race of the first 13 days:
Black 29.62%
White 66.39%
Native Am 0.35%
Two Races 0.38%
Other* 3.26%
* includes Asian, blank field, undesignated, AND other. Hispanics who list themselves as undesignated or other or leave the race field blank are aggregated under "Other". Hispanics who also list Black or White appear in those categories
By party, the 2008 totals are
Cumulative 13-day
Unaffiliated 17.34%
Republican 26.15%
Libertarian 0.05%
Democratic 56.46%
51.45% of the early votes Tuesday were Democratic, down from the 53.45% of Tuesday. The GOP total of 30.36% Tuesday was up from the 28.72% of Monday.
The entire electorate in North Carolina breaks down:
Unaffiliated 22.26%
Republican 32.01%
Libertarian 0.05%
Democratic 45.68%
North Carolina registered over 862,000 new voters in 2008, and voter registration continues at early voting sites.
As of Monday, the following percentage of each party's electorate has voted early:
Unaffiliated 18.51%
Republican 19.42%
Libertarian 23.81%
Democratic 29.37%
2004 totals for early voting:
Unaffiliated 15%
Republican 37%
Libertarian 0.5%
Democratic 48%
Here are the number of sites open each day:
Wednesday through Friday: 364 in 100 counties
Saturday 11/1 337 sites in 100 counties
90 counties cut off at 1 pm November 1, the other 10 have closing hours the final day from 2 pm to as late as 5 pm.
This diary does NOT include stats on mail-in absentee ballots, only those cast in person. Since North Carolina captures party and race on its registration records, and posts early votes cast to the voter record each evening, stats can be run the next morning.
No racial breakdown is available for 2004 on the State Board of Elections files.
files used for data analysis
2008 ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/enrs/absentee11xx04xx2008_Stats.xls (updated daily)
2004 ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/enrs/absentee11xx02xx2004.zip
2008 http://sboe.state.nc.us (current registration)
October 28 registration totals at
http://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/...
http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/...
2008 new voters
http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/...