Data thread on today's North Carolina accepted absentee ballot #s, through 10-17:

Total: 1,433,772

Absentee OneStop (In-Person): 828,452

Absentee by mail: 605,321

By party registration within each vote method & total

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To give a sense of things:

NC currently has 7.2M registered voters (as of 10-17)

1.4M represents 20% of total registered voters having cast a ballot for Nov. 3

Within party registrations:

Democrats: 26%
Republicans: 16%
Unaffiliated: 17%

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2016 electorate was 69% of total registered voters that year.

This year, 69% would = 5M voters showing up.

If NC's electorate for Nov. 3 is an estimated 5M (total # of ballots cast):

1.4M represents 29% of that electorate so far

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NC total accepted absentee ballots, thru 10-17:

65% from White Non-Hispanic
22% from Black Non-Hispanic
2% from Hispanic/Latino
4% from all other races Non-Hispanic

by Voter Race-Ethnicity and Party Registration within

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NC total accepted absentee ballots, thru 10-17, by generation cohorts:

45% from Boomers
22% from Gen X
14% from Millennials
14% from Greatest/Silent
5% from Gen Z

by Voter Generation Cohort & Party Registration within

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NC total accepted absentee ballots, thru 10-17, by voter regions:

31% from Urban Central City Voters
26% from Urban Suburb Voters
24% from Surrounding Suburban County Voters
19% from Rural County Voters

by Voter Regions & Party Registrations within each

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NC total accepted absentee ballots, thru 10-17:

Voters who cast a ballot in 2016's election (& vote method) OR were registered in/after 2016, by party registrations

Overall:

61% voted absentee onestop in 2016
5% voted absentee by mail in 2016
22% new voters

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NC total accepted absentee ballots, thru 10-17:

Comparison between 2016 daily total ballots to 2020 daily total ballots, by days out from Election Day

So far, 2020 is 46% of the total 2016 absentee ballots cast (3.1M)

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NC total accepted absentee ballots, thru 10-17:

Comparison of absentee by mail and onestop (in-person) daily totals between 2016 and 2020 by days out from Election Day

Columns = 2016 #s
Dots (Mail)/Triangles (OneStop) = 2020 #s

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NC total accepted absentee ballots, thru 10-17:

Comparison of 2016 to 2020 cumulative daily totals of mail and onestop absentee ballots by days out from Election Day

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NC total accepted absentee ballots, thru 10-17:

2020 cumulative daily total #s and %s by party registration, based on days out from Election Day

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Data for this thread comes from @NCSBE files, found here:

https://dl.ncsbe.gov/index.html?prefix=ENRS/2020_11_03/

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