NC Early Voting Update: October 27

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Early voting in NC began last week, on October 20. I thought it might be interesting to compare the Early Voting numbers with 2018, the last midterm election. A day-to-day comparison wouldn't tell us much, since the days are different due to how Election Day changes, and there are usually fewer votes on weekends. So I thought a total-vote comparison and an average-votes-per-day comparison would be better:

In 2018, after 7 days of Early Voting, 692,419 votes had been cast.

In 2022, after 7 days of Early Voting, 722,543 votes have been cast. Therefore, this year we have had 30,124 more votes cast after 7 days of Early Voting.

In 2018, the average number of votes per day after 7 days of EV was 98,917.

In 2022, the average number of voters per day after 7 days of EV is 103,220, a difference of 4,303 votes per day.

Things look good so far with Early Voting. However, the biggest change is in mail-in ballots that have been received. In 2018 (in the Before Times), at this point there had been 27,520 ballots received by mail. This year, the total so far is 73,514. That's a difference of 45,994.

Source: https://carolinaelections.com/votetracker/