The wife and I voted today at 4pm, at the Seymour Senior Center in Chapel Hill and our son voted first thing in the day at the State Board Of Elections in Hillsborough, the county seat.
This is the first day of early voting in North Carolina, and the polling places except for the Board of Election site opened at noon today.
Senator Hagan was at UNC leading a walk to the polls. I'm sure the really enthusiastic Democrats joined her leaving my polling place in north Chapel Hill a little vacant...not!
Democrats were outside at a table handing out literature and unlike the 2010 and 2012 there was no Republican presence.
There was a steady stream of voters going into the polling place, a line to check in, a line to get to one of the fifteen voting booths and a line to put your ballot into the tabulator.
My wife was voter 583, I was voter 593, and that is after just four hours of voting, before rush hour, at only one out of the five early voting sites in the county!
In 2012 the number of voters on the first day of early voting for the entire county was 3,864. In 2008 there was only 2,925 voters on the first day of early voting in the county. In 2010 after four days of early voting there were 1,783 (435 on the first day).
Our son's experience at 8 o'clock in the morning is that there was a line at start of voting and even getting there before 8 o'clock he was the 19th person to vote.
I think we are getting out the vote!
(in Orange county 70.4% of the votes went for Obama.)