A Political Science Public Scholarship Blog from @BowTiePolitics @chriscooperwcu @whitneymnz & @profsuroberts about NC, Southern US, & American politics #ncpol
Oct 25, 2020 • 16 tweets • 13 min read
Data thread on North Carolina's accepted absentee ballots, through 10-24:
Total Ballots cast: 3,100,361
FYI: this total represents 99.9% of *all* of 2016's absentee ballots cast (3,102,093)
Absentee OneStop (In-Person): 2,328,597
Absentee by mail: 771,764
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There are several duplicates in the data, for both absentee by mail & absentee onestop (in-person), but previous tweet removes the duplicates & uses the most recent ballot activity.
Raw data #s for accepted vote methods & return status by party registrations:
That's the number of requests processed for North Carolina absentee by mail ballots, as of today's (9/2) report
This represents a nearly 16X increase in requests on the same day in 2016
A data thread of these requests:
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The 591K processed requests are from 98 out of 100 NC counties. Perquimans and Tyrrell counties continue not to report anything, though their 2016 total requests were quite small.
Today's # of NC requests for absentee by mail ballots: 82,792
Four years ago this same day, the total requested was 17,916.
Currently, 2020 NC ABM requests is 4.6X *ahead* of where we were in 2016.
This nearly 83K represents 36% of the 2016 *total* requests made.
Sep 3, 2019 • 16 tweets • 19 min read
Today's #NC09 early voting (accepted absentee in-person/one-stop & mail-in) thread for 9/10 general election (data at dl.ncsbe.gov/index.html?pre…):
As of 9-3: 46,351 absentee ballots have been accepted.
A reminder: Labor Day saw several counties without voting.
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Among #NC09's 8 counties, Mecklenburg (40%) & Union (32%) continue to lead in early votes. Voter party registration %s within each of the #NC09 eight counties and district-wide for accepted absentee (in-person & mail-in) ballots so far:
North Carolina's 'early votes' are on pace for a mid-term record; as of 10-26-18 for absentee by mail & one-stop/in-person:
Over 1M requests have been made;
Of those, 957K of both absentee by mail & onestop/in-person have been returned & accepted.
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Regarding NC accepted in-person ballots (that will be the majority of absentees): as has been noted for a few days, 2018 seems more of a 'presidential' year than a traditional mid-term.
But, 2018's daily total is slipping behind 2016's daily total, as expected
Today's thread of NC 'early votes' as of 10-24-18 (note 2 different types: by mail & one-stop/in-person).
So far, 789K requests have been made for absentee ballots (both mail & in-person).
Of those, 716K have been returned & accepted (both mail & in-person).
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Regarding NC accepted in-person ballots (that will be the majority of absentees): as has been noted over past few days, 2018 seems more of a 'presidential' year than a traditional mid-term.
But, 2018's daily total is beginning to slip behind 2016's daily total