Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Awaiting Wednesday's Numbers

With the weekend and the holiday on Monday, the numbers for North Carolina's mail-in absentee ballots have moved slowly, but we should expect a fairly large increase in the numbers come Wednesday following processing today.

Today's numbers show 45,216 requested ballots (non-duplicate cases), with the following breakdowns:




  • Ballots sent out to registered Republican voters: 39 percent
  • registered Democratic voters: 37 percent
  • registered unaffiliated & Libertarian voters: 24 percent
  • Women: 57 percent
  • Men: 43 percent
  • Whites: 83 percent
  • Blacks: 12 percent
Among those 9,083 ballots returned and accepted for the November 4 election: 



  • from registered Democratic voters: 41.9 percent
  • registered Republican voters: 36.4 percent
  • registered unaffiliated & Libertarian voters: 21.6 percent
  • Females: 53.9 percent
  • Males: 45.3 percent
  • Whites: 82.3 percent
  • Blacks: 13.1 percent
The percentage increases over the same-day totals from 2010 for the three major party registration classifications are: