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Early in-person voting in North Carolina has surpassed 2020 levels, with nearly 3.8 million voters casting ballots by Friday afternoon, according to the State Board of Elections. Including mail-in ballots, the total reaches almost 4.01 million, over 51% of the state’s 7.83 million registered voters. Early voting concludes Saturday at 3 p.m.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To clarify the headlibe: early voting this cycle has exceeded early voting last cycle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you clarifying stranger.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks. I definitely thought "total" meant total.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

How silly of us to assume.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Yeah it’s a very badly written headline - thanks for clarifying 👍

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Osprey reported last night the numbers were over 70 million national total. That's the real record. That's enthusiasm. That's fired up. Proud of my country.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s excellent. No matter who wins, no matter why people vote how they do, it’s great to see so much participation!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's mostly due to Republicans backing off their "only vote on election day" bullshit because it hurt them last time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

This was my thought as well.

In 2020 they really pushed hard to tell their supporters to not early vote or vote by mail.

And this time they realize that those things are fine (and good and easy, though let’s never admit that!) so there’s a big upswing.

Also just no pandemic as well.