1,583 accepted NC mail ballots thru 09/16, up 648 on Friday. Images: daily comparison with 2014/2018 mid-terms and 2016/2020 presidential, top 20 counties, voter party. 79,728 absentee requests received by counties thru 09/16, up 3,670 on Friday. #ncpol Here’s some stats directly from #ncsbe graphics posted daily (today at 9:25 am) at dl.ncsbe.gov/?prefix=Press/… #ncpol /2 type of vote source, party, race and gender

Senate Bill 722, approved unanimously in #ncga Senate Committee today moves elections in 37 cities with electoral districts from 2021 to 2022. (Includes Raleigh, Cary, Charlotte and Greensboro) to allow for redistricting. /1 #ncpol ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/… Mar 8, 2022 are US Senate primaries. Raleigh/Cary election would be Mar 8, any runoff Apr 26*. For Charlotte plurality partisan primary Mar 8, election Apr 26*. For Greensboro nonpartisan primary Mar 8, election Apr 26*. (*could move to May 12 if federal runoff that date) /2

#ncsbe Director Karen Brinson Bell just recommended to State Board of Elections that ALL 2021 municipal elections be delayed until 2022, and that 2022 primary be moved from March 8 to May 3 (second primary July 12). She says she has talked to state legislators NCLM /1 #ncpol Brinson Bell will be making this presentation to NC House Elections Committee at 1 pm Wednesday. For Raleigh and Cary if adopted this would put election May 3, 2022 and any runoff Jul 12. For Wake municipalities w/plurality format, election May 3, 2022. /2 #ncpol

As analyze the 2020 NC provisional file at s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/E… -- note it's partially uploaded, not likely final til Saturday.

I've put together a 2016 analysis, 60,591 provisionals with 44.3% counted, but wide variance based on types. See image. /1 #ncpol In 2016 analysis, combined approved/partially approved, difference irrelevant for statewide races. Most voting at wrong precinct w/in county or reporting address change have votes counted. If no voter record found at precinct, it's researched, in 2016 about 20% counted /2 #ncpol

Thru Nov 3 NC has 4,597,716 accepted ballots: 977,184 mail, 3,620,532 in-person early (62.5% of 7,359,935 reg voters, 96.4% of 4,769,640 2016 turnout). Same-day registration 110,591, 3.1% of 3,620,532 in-person early. (party, race, top 25 counties, daily early) #ncpol /1 I won't be doing this report again until after the Nov 13 county canvasses. But I will be tracking accepted absentee ballots coming in Nov 3-12. Those received yesterday are not in the election results. The number of accepted absentees went up by 17,204 this morning. /2 #ncpolm

Outside the Lake Lynn early voting site in Wake County about 30 minutes after early voting poll close, three voters came up to me trying to turn in their voted absentee ballots (too late for that option), so I gave them 5 options .... (continued) /1 #ncpol (1) take to county board of elections office Monday during business hours. (in Wake, 1200 North New Hope Rd in Raleigh 8:30p to 5:15p); (2) same as #1, but Tuesday 8:30a to 5p; (3) vote Tuesday 6:30a to 7:30p at their precinct, THEN discard absentee envelope ... (continued) /2

Orange County NC early voting Saturday 1,714. Final early vote total 50,562. orangecountync.gov/1720/Elections /1 #ncpol Wake County early voting Saturday 16,745 in a 6-hour voting period. Final early voting total 372,960. msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/downl… /2 #ncpol

Orange County NC early voting Friday 2,704. Sixteen day cumulative total 48,848. orangecountync.gov/1720/Elections /1 #ncpol Every time I see “Efland” I think of the I-85 “Efland” highway exit sign that used to be defaced every December to say “Elfland” /2

Orange County NC early voting Thursday 2,362. Fifteen day cumulative total 46,144. orangecountync.gov/1720/Elections /1 #ncpol Wake County early voting Thursday 22,568. Fifteen day cumulative total 329,704. msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/downl… /2 #ncpol

Orange County NC early voting Tuesday 2,539. Thirteen day cumulative total 41,354. orangecountync.gov/1720/Elections /1 #ncpol Wake County NC early voting Tuesday 22,930. Thirteen day cumulative total 283,459. msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/downl… /2 #ncpol

Orange County NC early voting Monday 2,636. Twelve day cumulative total 38,806. With 21,850 mail ballots accepted through Sunday, Orange Co turnout now 54.3% of all registered voters. orangecountync.gov/1720/Elections /1 #ncpol Wake County NC early voting Monday 23,104. Twelve day cumulative total 260,526. With 129,679 accepted mail ballots through Sunday, Wake Co turnout is now 49.3% of all registered voters. msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/downl… /2 #ncpol

Orange County NC early voting Sunday. 1,349. Eleven day cumulative total 36,170. orangecountync.gov/1720/Elections /1 #ncpol Wake County NC early voting Sunday 11,431. Eleven day cumulative total 237,422. msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/downl… #ncpol /2

Early voting in NC Oct 15-31. Info/sites here: ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-ea… also statewide list here: s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/O… // Th-Fr Oct 15-16 has 464 sites statewide, choose any site in your county. Images are schedules in Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham, open ALL 17 days. #ncpol /1 Personal suggestion for early voting in NC: busiest days likely Oct 15 and Oct 26-31, so try Oct 16-25 ! Historically least crowded weekday hours likely 8 am-10 am and 6 pm - 7:30 pm. Weekday hours in 450+ of 464 sites are 8am-7:30pm (a few small counties have less hours) /2

Quick look at #ncsbe Sunday absentee ballot request summary file, (changes cover county processing Friday and Saturday): statewide 370,693 +37,140 (an 11% jump). Wake 71,144 +7,517. Orange 14,648 +1,992. Mecklenburg. 53,404 +6,258. #ncpol (2016 FINAL request total about 231,000) In another metric, 9.2% of all Wake County voters and 13.2% of Orange County voters have already requested an absentee ballot. Statewide it’s 5.2%. All THREE of those numbers are historically very large. /2 #ncpol

This is a serious tweet on Silent Sam. If the law allows it to be relocated within the jurisdiction, and the jurisdiction here is the UNC-CH campus, why can’t the campus be expanded ?(continued) /1 The NCSU campus was expanded in the 1980s as the Council of State REALLOCATED part of DHHS Dix property to NCSU on recommendation of Governor Hunt. It’s now part of NCSU campus. /2

Proposed #ncga House Committee Substitute for SB325 (unrelated to the earlier version) ncleg.net/documentsites/… makes major #ncpol early voting changes. Bill is calendared for House Rules for 10 am. Drops early voting to 10 days from 17. More ..... /1 This amends the statute that was voided by federal court making it harder to compare with what it would have been this year and 2020 without this bill. More ..... /2 #ncpol

A tweet storm on the notion that a photo ID is either necessary or mandated by law for all sorts of things. #ncpol /1 ..... You need a photo ID to fly (Pat McCrory bill signing video when he signed 2013 voter ID bill. NOT TRUE. TSA has lots of workarounds for those without government photo ID, see FOX NEWS story: google.com/amp/www.foxnew… /2 #ncpol