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Oct 2 #ncpol 📪 voting update:
🗳️17,659 ballots cast/ 17,446 accepted from 99 counties
🗳️20% fewer ballots accepted than same day 2022--dems down 30%
🗳️voter location I'd most like to visit; Amiens, France
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"It's very important to lift this report up because it is designed to make us have better decisions about what we're doing with technology, particularly in a time when budgets are tighter." #ncpol #nced

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"24 people on average die from heat in Mecklenburg County every year, according to the report. 20 in Wake County." #heatdeath #ncpol

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"The changes are part of legislation approved by the General Assembly and signed into law this year." #ncpol

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NC voter registration as of Oct 1 is now 7,867,065, daily net* change total up 2,545, Democrats +707, Republican -92. See image for more details.
*net = new registrations less, deaths, cancellations, felony convictions, party changes.
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Data found in zip folder located at: dl.ncsbe.gov?prefix=ENRS/...

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Among the 17,446 accepted 2026 mail voters:

2,846 (16.3%) also returned an accepted mail ballot by the same point in 2022.

8,540 (49.0%) appear in the full 2022 accepted-mail file.

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Comparison of to-date NC accepted mail-in ballots by race/ethnicity & generation cohorts.

Slightly more White non-Hispanic than 4 years ago.

Very slightly older than 4 years ago, but close in generation %s.

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Comparison based on NC registered voter party status, at this point in accepted mail-in ballots:

2022: 52% Democratic / 32% Unaffiliated / 16% Republican
2026: 46% Dem / 38% Una / 16% Rep

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A month after NC mail-in ballots began to be sent out, here are current numbers & comparisons to 4 years ago:

2026 through Oct. 1: 17,446
2022 thru Oct. 6: 20,996

2026 is 3,550 behind same day totals from 4 years ago.

Most significant drop is among NC registered Democrats

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As of Oct 2 NC election deadlines:

7 days until regular voter registration ends Fri Oct 9

13 days until early vote starts Thurs Oct 15

18 days until absentee request deadline Tues Oct 20

29 days until early vote ends Sat Oct 31

32 days until election day Tues Nov 3.

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Part 2 of North State Journal’s interview with Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler. #ncpol
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1,405 NC absentee ballots accepted Thurs Oct 1, cumulative total now 17,446. Top two counties Wake 3,157, Mecklenburg 1,965. Images top 10 counties, voter party affiliation, top 15 cities. #ncpol

The amendment not only gives control of local property taxes to politicians in Raleigh; it also tells them they can hand out favors to whoever they want. ncnewsline.com/2026/10/02/d... (Commentary) #ncpol

Registration checked?
Sample ballot reviewed?
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Photo ID ready?

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Make your voice heard, NC! Early voting is Oct 15–31, & Election Day is Nov 3. Don't let anything block your vote. On Oct 15 at 3 PM, students from Bennett College, UNCG, and NC A&T are marching to Union Square to walk to the polls. Stand strong and exercise your rights!
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Watch for North Carolina, where Republicans have installed a similar sham election board under State Auditor/MAGA dickweed Dave Boliek, to try the exact same thing.

If it does, we must be ready to move fast.

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This is not the person I want on the NC Supreme Court representing women. #NCpol