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RandySF

(57,632 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 02:49 AM Oct 2014

Report: Turnout is way up in Democratic NC counties.

We’re seven days in to early voting for this election cycle and nearly 600,000 votes have been cast across North Carolina. Seven days in to the general election in 2010, only around 252,000 votes had been cast across the state.

Turnout in all four Triangle counties has been huge. With two days left of early voting, the number of votes cast in Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham Counties exceeds the cumulative number of votes cast up to and including the seventh day of early voting in 2010, by two- or or three-fold. Of course for this election cycle, the number of days we have to vote early has been cut from 17 down to 10; voters seem to have taken notice of this shortened allotted time

Here are the total numbers of early votes by County, tallied from the first day of early voting (last Thursday) through yesterday, Wednesday, October 29. We compared them to turnout in the first seven days of early voting in 2010 (note we didn’t use 2012, since it was a Presidential election year).


http://www.indyweek.com/news/archives/2014/10/30/2014-general-election-early-voting-by-the-numbers

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Report: Turnout is way up in Democratic NC counties. (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2014 OP
So many votes to disenfranchise, but the rethugs are up to it nikto Oct 2014 #1
Not going to get ready.. going to only Encourage GOTV~! Cha Oct 2014 #3
From your lips to God's ears nikto Nov 2014 #5
Blessed be that it's so! Thanks to all the Democratic Angels! Cha Oct 2014 #2
The encouraging breakdown of data suggests that far more Dems mnhtnbb Oct 2014 #4
 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
1. So many votes to disenfranchise, but the rethugs are up to it
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 03:33 AM
Oct 2014

Get ready for The Big GOP Steal next Tuesday.


It's coming.

mnhtnbb

(31,319 posts)
4. The encouraging breakdown of data suggests that far more Dems
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 05:26 AM
Oct 2014

are voting early than Repubs in 2014 compared to 2010.

You can play with the numbers here: http://www.carolinatransparency.com/votetracker/gen2014/

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