News First Day of Early Voting: "The Bluest Areas in N.C. Are on GOTV Steroids"

[RandySF]

Early voting line outside of Chavis Community Center in Southeast Raleigh, Thurs. Oct 20, 2016.
Unofficial tallies from the first day indicate that early voting saw a jump in the Triangle yesterday, but overall, early voting throughout the state was down around 3 percent.

Wake County counted 12,253 ballots by the end of the day yesterday, spread across nine sites; the top three sites were Herbert C. Young Community Center in Cary (1,935), Lake Lynn Community Center in Raleigh (1,795), and Chavis Community Center in Southeast Raleigh (1,700). According to Wake BOE external communications manager Kerry McComber, this was up from 11,242 voters across eight sites in 2012, a nearly 9 percent jump.

Durham had 7,785 ballots on the first day spread across five sites; also apparently up from 2012, although we haven't found numbers from the first day in 2012

But the biggest increase came in Orange County, which saw a whopping 40 percent jump in early voting totals from 2012. 5,377 people voted in Orange County yesterday over five sites, an improvement from both 2012 (3,864 over five sites) and 2008 (2,925 over five sites).

http://m.indyweek.com/news/archives/2016/10/21/first-day-of-early-voting-the-bluest-areas-in-nc-are-on-gotv-steroids

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1. K&R

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2. I voted today in Wayne County

my ballot put us to a bit over 3050 (we have only one site) with what was a brisk moving line and crowd. My county has about 130,000 people over all. We went about 54/45 GOP in 2012. In 2008 we were about 55/44 GOP.

[ncgrits]

3. Heck yeah! I voted in Orange County

On Thursday morning in Hillsborough at the Board of Elections. It was the busiest I've EVER seen it! Easily 4 times as many folks there as I've seen in previous elections.

[DAMANgoldberg]

4. I voted yesterday in Mecklenburg County

According to Ch. 9, 11000 voters in my county on day 1. http://www.wsoctv.com/news/north-carolina/early-inperson-voting-getting-underway-in-north-carolina_/458991405

I voted on day 2, yesterday at the same location in the video report. The line at the time I went was 10 deep. There was even a young girl standing outside who asked me who I voted for. I told her, but she was also inside the 50 ft buffer zone, so technically she couldn't ask that question by law, but I didn't mind. I also live in the "hood", so YMMV.