NC early voting 210,925 Wednesday

[Hope And Change]

NC early voting 210,925 Wednesday

by dean4ever

Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 03:46:29 AM PDT

North Carolina now has had a record 1,690,195 in person early votes, as 210,925 more votes were cast Wednesday at 364 locations, besting the previous daily high of 195,003. The final 2004 total was 984,294. The final 2008 number should exceed 2 million. Early voting ends Saturday afternoon.

Blacks made up 24.24% of the Wednesday total, down from the 26.33% who voted early Tuesday. Both numbers exceed the 21.4% of registered voters who are Black. Already, 36.81% of Black registered voters in North Carolina have voted early, compared with 24.83% of Whites. 32.99% of registered Democrats have already voted, compared with 22.74% of registered Republicans.

104,165 Democrats voted Wednesday compared with 100,089 Tuesday, while 66,565 Republicans cast votes Wednesday up from the 59,148 of Tuesday. 51,134 Blacks voted Wednesday compared with 51,350 Tuesday.


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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/30/64629/825/487/646327

[tekisui]

1. That's incredible. Maybe we'll hit 2 million early votes.

3.5 million voted in 2004, total.