North Carolina had 153,732 more early votes cast Thursday, for a cumulative 8-day total of 830,610. A 17-day early voting period opened in North Carolina last Thursday. Blacks made up 27.34% of the Tuesday total, down from the 28.78% who voted Tuesday. Both numbers greatly exceed the 21.2% of registered voters who are Black. Already, 19.55% of Black registered voters in North Carolina have voted early, compared with 11.92% of Whites.
UPDATE: as of 5:15 pm Friday (day 9), the total of early voters had risen to 951,142 (another 121,000+), but many sites are open until 7 pm and I will post new stats Saturday covering all of Friday.
UPDATE 2: Those first 120,532 voters Friday were 27.38% Black (up from Thursday) and 53.39% Democratic vs 28.68% GOP.
For 2008, here is a breakdown by race of the first 8 days:
Black 30.91%
White 65.25%
Native Am 0.34%
Two Races 0.38%
Other* 3.11%
* includes Asian, blank field, undesignated, AND other.
By party, the 2008 totals are
Cumulative 8-day
Unaffiliated 16.68%
Republican 24.18%
Libertarian 0.05%
Democratic 59.08%
55.52% of the early votes Thursday were Democratic, off slightly from the 57.13% of Wednesday. The 55.52% is more than double the GOP total of 27.22% from Thursday.
The entire electorate in North Carolina breaks down:
Unaffiliated 22.26%
Republican 32.05%
Libertarian 0.05%
Democratic 45.64%
North Carolina registered over 862,000 new voters in 2008, and voter registration continues at early voting sites.
As of Wednesday, the following percentage of each party's electorate has voted early:
Unaffiliated 10.04%
Republican 10.10%
Libertarian 13.34%
Democratic 17.33%
In 2004, 984,298 early votes were cast for the 17-day period.
North Carolina allows early voting through Saturday, November 1.
Here are the number of sites open each day:
Friday 10/24: 335 in all 100 counties
Saturday 10/25: 197 in 53 counties
Sunday 10/26: 55 in 10 counties
Monday 10/27: 367 in 100 counties
Tuesday 10/28: 358 in 100 counties
Wedmesday through Friday: 360 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)
http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/...
2008 new voters
http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/...