NC: Early voting for Tuesday primary ends

[gateley]

RALEIGH, N.C. — Voters got their last chance to weigh in early on the state primary during one-stop voting earlier Saturday.

One-stop voting polls throughout the state closed at 1 p.m., but those in line at that time will be able to vote, election officials said.

Extra poll workers staffed each of Wake County’s nine one-stop voting sites. In Wake County, a total of 37,000 people took advantage of one-stop voting. About 5,600 voted on Saturday.

In Durham, 20,231 people participated in one-stop voting.

“We were just surprised with the volume,” said Gary Sims, Deputy Director of the Board of Elections in Wake County.

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Statewide 337,685 people had cast ballots at one-stop voting polls and 18,021 absentee ballots had been returned on Friday. Final totals for Saturday were not immediately available.

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WHEN are the one-stop and absentee ballots counted? Thanks! :hi:

[SoCalDem]

1. When? When the EZ-votecount-a-tronic is done with them

[gateley]

2. Thanks. (Are we SURE that's not a giant shredder?)

Does it automatically read/scan the ballot? I guess what I'm asking is do they tally the votes for each candidate as they receive the early and absentee ballots, or begin the tally on election day?

[SoCalDem]

3. I guess Indiana uses the "vapor-vote" touch screen, so who knows if the votes

are tallied correctly..

NC? I don't know if they use paper or vapor vote machines..

[gateley]

4. This looks like the machine I fed my ballot into --

had to fill in the ovals next to my choices with a pen.

[SoCalDem]

5. The one I chose IS a shredder..

I hope yours is NOT :rofl:

[gateley]

6. Ha!

I thought the clear bin with the shreds in it was just a showroom model! I was joking about the shredder!

Well, my machine DID look like that - fed my ballot into the slot, there was a counter and it was counted, and I didn't hear any grinding noises!

So I was wondering if, when I fed it in, it would be able to tell right then and there WHO I voted for, and tally that, or if all that is done at a later date.

That's funny! It really DOES look like your pic. Of course my machine didn't have the clear plastic bin, so who knows? :rofl:

[democrattotheend]

7. My brother's friend did not vote. GRRR!!!

My brother's good friend from home goes to UNC. He wanted to vote for Obama but did not register before the deadline. I called him Thursday night to tell him that he could still vote by voting early, and I sent him the info for his polling place. I called him today to remind him and sent him an IM, but he IMed me a little while ago and said that he had been at the pool all day and not gotten my message, and he forgot about early voting. GRRRR!!!

I guess it's partly my fault for not calling him earlier in the week, giving him more time to early vote. I talked to someone at UNC yesterday who volunteers for Obama and he said they have the on-campus students and students living in apartments nearby covered. My brother's friend lives in a group house off campus, so he might not have been reached. Hopefully most students got the message, but I am a little disheartened.

[MattNC]

8. only so much you can do

He had plenty of chances to vote. He didn't. He obviously doesn't care too much about it.