10,000 North Carolinians vote absentee in first week

[RandySF]

Nearly 10,000 North Carolinians had their mail-in ballots accepted in the first week of voting, according to data released Friday by the State Board of Elections.

Of the 10,380 absentee ballots returned since counties sent them out last Friday, 9,966 have been accepted. North Carolina was the first state in the country to send absentee ballots to voters who requested them.

The accepted ballots represent about 1% of the number requested and an even smaller fraction of the state’s 7.1 million registered voters, meaning limited conclusions can be drawn so far. But the data does offer insight on how people are casting ballots and what challenges may lie ahead.

Of the ballots returned so far, 6,155 are from Democrats, compared to 1,248 from Republicans and nearly 3,000 from unaffiliated voters. The multi-step process that leads to ballots being scanned and eventually counted doesn’t start until Sept. 29 when county boards can meet to further review them, and tallies won’t be released until election night after polls close.



https://www.pilotonline.com/government/elections/vp-nw-north-carolina-absentee-vote-20200911-eo66n4cjcffmbhmjwgtyltb5eq-story.html

[qazplm135]

1. the selfishness of the Republican voter...

"She said she voted for President Donald Trump because she believes her 401(k) retirement plan would do better under his administration."

So all that matters to her is her 401K? Nothing else. This is how Republicans get any power at all, via selfish and self-centered people.

[LisaL]

7. Most people who returned the ballots are democrats, yet the article included the quote

of someone who voted for Trump, and no one who said they voted for Biden.

[Squinch]

2. This Democratic/Republican breakdown is great news, but buried in that report is the fact that 4%

of the votes were not "accepted."

That is a large percentage of votes, and from a batch that is overwhelmingly Democratic.

[kentuck]

3. Yes. A lot of votes are getting disqualified.

That is very troublesome.

[Squinch]

5. The article describes that many of those are fixable, but that is an added step that reduces the

likelihood that the vote will ultimately be cast. Hopefully, the multiple ways to vote will bring out enough voters to overcome the tossed ballots.

[LisaL]

6. The voters will be notified that their ballot was not accepted so they can fix whatever it is

that prevented the ballot from being accepted.

[LisaL]

4. Per the article, board will notify them that there is an issue so

they can correct it.
North Carolina requires a witness to sign the ballot and it would appear that's where most of the issues are coming from. But if the voters send their ballots in early, they have plenty of time to correct whatever issues are preventing the ballot from being accepted.