Early in-person voting in North Carolina ends Saturday, but the number of people who have cast ballots by this method already has exceeded the total from four years ago.

Summary

Early in-person voting in North Carolina has surpassed 2020 levels, with nearly 3.8 million voters casting ballots by Friday afternoon, according to the State Board of Elections. Including mail-in ballots, the total reaches almost 4.01 million, over 51% of the state’s 7.83 million registered voters. Early voting concludes Saturday at 3 p.m.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    172·
    15 days ago

    That’s excellent. No matter who wins, no matter why people vote how they do, it’s great to see so much participation!

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      12·
      15 days ago

      It’s mostly due to Republicans backing off their “only vote on election day” bullshit because it hurt them last time.

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        15 days ago

        This was my thought as well.

        In 2020 they really pushed hard to tell their supporters to not early vote or vote by mail.

        And this time they realize that those things are fine (and good and easy, though let’s never admit that!) so there’s a big upswing.

        Also just no pandemic as well.