The State Board of Election may order a recount in a State Supreme Court contest between Cheri Beasley and Mike Robinson. With only 10 precincts unreported, the margin between Beasley and Robinson is just over 5,000 votes.
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The State Board of Elections results website has encountered intermittent outages and updating lags. The Agency is working with the State Office of Information Technology to increase bandwidth and resolve these display errors.
Midterm voter participation in North Carolina set a new record tonight. As of 10:34PM, 2,717,920 voters had cast ballots. In 2010, turnout was 2,700,393.
More North Carolinians voted early and within fewer days than in any prior midterm election. This was the first general election held under a compacted 10-day one-stop early voting schedule. Polls will open tomorrow at 6:30AM and close 7:30PM, and those in line at closing time will be permitted to vote.
The State Board of Elections today completed an audit of more than 10,000 registered voters with questionable citizenship status. The Agency analyzed data provided by the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to flag 1,425 currently registered voters who are likely non-citizens.
The U.S. Supreme Court today stayed a federal appeals court order that would have enjoined parts of North Carolina’s new voting law regarding same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
The Fourth Circuit today reinstated same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting ahead of the General Election in November. A divided panel ordered the lower court to enjoin enforcement of new election procedures that eliminated same-day registration and required that a voter cast her ballot in her properly assigned precinct. Judge Diana Gribbon Motz dissented.
The State Board of Elections today announced there will be more early voting locations across North Carolina than in any prior off-year election. A total of 366 one-stop sites will host 25,735.5 hours of early voting, including 68.8% more evening hours than in 2010, the most recent non-presidential general election.
September 23 is National Voter Registration Day, and the State Board of Elections has announced that its rolls grew by nearly 1.5 million over the last decade. More than 6.5 million have registered, representing roughly 9 out of 10 eligible North Carolinians.
The special filing period in three judicial races closed today at noon. An updated report of all filed candidates from this special filing period will be posted on the State Board of Elections website.