Early Voting

If you go to http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/ and look in the right pane, you will see a nearly realtime statewide early voting tracker, for instance at 4:02 pm:

Absentee By Mail Ballots Returned: 5,466

Absentee Onestop Ballots Cast: 9,501

I don't get what's up with the Wolffs - they're running for the same seat, but in different parties. So if she wins, they run against each other (and I bet she'll drop out, you wait!) and if she doesn't, he gets to use her signs, since they don't have their first names on them. Someone go ask one of them, ok? (I'd love to, but I'm on Duke's campus all day for work).

-Bryn

The State Board of Elections has lots of files on its website (all available to the public). There is a daily absentee ballot file that one can import into Excel and sort -- here is what I got: 

statewide early voting first three days: 32,086 (five counties had voting on Saturday).

Orange County:

967 Democrats voting

 92 Republicans voting

270 Unaffiliated voters choosing Democratic ballot

  9 Unaffiliated voters choosing Republican ballot

  8 Unaffiliated voters choosing an unaffiliated ballot (nonpartisan and transfer tax)

1346 TOTAL

Under the Dome has just posted on the huge surge in one stop early voting statewide:

"One-stop voting is rivaling turnout for a general election. According to statistics compiled by the State Board of Elections at the request of Dome, the five-day total of ballots cast at one-stop sites is 45,429. That's slightly less than the 57,250 for the five-day period between Oct. 19-23, 2006. But that was a general election. By comparison, the 2006 primary saw just 7,688 votes cast at one-stop sites between April 13-17. Put another way: One-stop voting turnout so far is six times what it was at a comparable point in the last primary."

 The spreadsheet they posted shows an even bigger jump in Orange for onestops in the first five days (Thurs-Monday):

2006 primary: 36

2006 general: 500

2008 primary: 2173

Orange with 2,173 is the 4th highest in the state, with Cumberland leading at 2,851 and Buncombe and Durham also higher than Orange. Orange is 60 times the 2006 primary turnout, compared to the state average six-fold increase.

Total Early Votes statewide as of Tuesday: 72896

Total in Orange County: 2828

Democrats 2044

Republicans 199

Unaff casting Dem ballot 536

Unaff casting Repub ballot 23

Unaff casting nonpartisan ballot 26

Top precincts:

Mason Farm 214

Country Club 188

East Franklin 180

Lincoln 109

Patterson 101

Total Early Votes statewide as of Thursday close: 99016

Total in Orange County: 4738

Democrats 3365

Republicans 322

Unaff casting Dem ballot 963

Unaff casting Repub ballot 43

Unaff casting nonpartisan ballot 34

Top 5 precincts:

Mason Farm 311

Country Club 284

East Franklin 235

Patterson 188

Lincoln 173

http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-946130.cfm?

excerpts below, numbers are as of Friday

CHAPEL HILL -- Nearly 6,500 people have taken advantage of early, one-stop voting in Orange County since the four early-voting sites opened on April 17.  ... The busiest site has been at the Morehead Planetarium, located on the UNC campus. Although it wasn't convenient to park near the planetarium, many students walked to the site to pick up free tickets for the Obama events and to vote. Three thousand, five hundred and fifteen people have voted at the site since April 17, including 850 who stopped by on Friday, said Orange County Board of Elections Director Tracy Reams.

"I know the first day I was there, in and out, it was 85 to 90 percent students," she said. "We had 650 the first day."

The Carrboro Town Hall has had 1,359 voters since April 17, Reams said.

Trish Verne, chief judge at the Carrboro site, said on Friday that nearly 100 people had voted in the first two hours the site was open Friday. Early voting has become popular for many reasons, she said...

Total Early Votes statewide as of Monday close: 320840 (59,335 new on Wednesday, new daily high)

Total in Orange County: 11,781 (1,730 new on Thursday, new daily high)

Democrats 8563

Republicans 730

Unaff casting Dem ballot 2394

Unaff casting Repub ballot 72

Unaff casting nonpartisan ballot 52

REMINDER of early voting sites:

Orange County Public Library Conference Room, 300 W. Tryon St, Hillsborough; Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W. Main St, Carrboro; Morehead Planetarium, 250 E. Franklin St, Chapel Hill: Friday 9-5, Saturday 9-1.

Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center, 2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill : Saturday 9-1. This site NOT open Friday, May 2.

 You must be in line by the closing hour in order to vote at that site. 

Do you have the numbers for early voting at each site?  I'm particularly

interested in the Seymour Center and Hillsoborough.

Total Early Votes statewide as of Friday close: 399,515 (82,000 +/- Friday, new daily high)

Total in Orange County: 14,207 as of Fri (2,625 new on Friday, new daily high)

Democrats 10295 72.5%

Republicans 864    6.1%

Unaff casting Dem ballot 2885 20.3%

Unaff casting Repub ballot 106 0.7%

Unaff casting nonpartisan ballot 56 0.6%

other county totals as of Friday: Durham 17,797; Mecklenburg 36,501

For you numbers junkies: 

Total early votes statewide: 466,396

Total Orange County early votes: 17,243 (3,036 Saturday, new high)

 detailed breakout for Orange, first table by party of the voter (showing which primary the voter cast ballots in), second table showing the party primary the votes were cast in, the third table showing which party unaffiliated voters vote in

 U in D means unaffiliated voter voted in Democratic Primary

 U in R means unaffiliated voter voted in Republican Primary

U in U means unaffiliated voter did not vote in either party primary but asked for nonpartisan ballot (judges, land transfer tax, OC school board)

Early votes top 20 precincts (Final)

Patterson     879

Mason Farm*  718

Country Club* 642

North Carrboro 635

Weaver Dairy  596

Hogan Farms 585

St. John 576

East Franklin* 535

Estes Hills  505

Lions Club 497

Orange Grove 494

Town Hall 492

Grady Brown 459

OWASA  443

Dogwood Acres 427

Northside 425

Greenwood* 420

Lincoln* 416

Kings Mill 415

Carrboro 408

* includes campus dorms