Tuesday, November 10, 2020

17 County Boards of Elections Counting Additional Votes Today

Seventeen county boards of elections are meeting today to consider a total of at least 7,200 additional absentee-by-mail ballots.
Raleigh, N.C.
Nov 10, 2020

Seventeen county boards of elections are meeting today to consider a total of at least 7,200 additional absentee-by-mail ballots. Approved ballots will be added to the unofficial results on the State Board of Elections website after the meetings.

As of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, county boards had accepted more than one million absentee-by-mail ballots, about 18 percent of the total ballots cast in the 2020 general election.

The Election Night Results website is here: Election Results Dashboard.

County boards of elections will continue to meet through Friday to consider additional absentee-by-mail ballots that arrive at their offices through Thursday, provided they were postmarked on or before Election Day.

According to state law, county boards of elections will complete their processes and canvass the election on Friday, Nov. 13. The State Board will meet on Nov. 24 to certify final results.

“Only a few days remain for counties to review absentee ballots,” said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections. “We want to thank the counties for all of their hard work this election in processing an unprecedented number of by-mail ballots in pandemic conditions.”

Election officials do not “call” contests for any candidate. Historically, the media or candidates have done that when the number of outstanding ballots in a contest is less than the vote difference between candidates or when it is clear that a candidate will ultimately prevail.

As of Tuesday morning, about 93,000 voters who requested an absentee-by-mail ballot had not yet returned an accepted ballot or voted in person during the early voting period. The number of these ballots ultimately received by county boards of elections and counted will be less than that because some voters cast their ballot in person on Election Day and others likely did not vote at all.

In addition, 27,500 absentee ballots that have been accepted by county boards on or after Election Day and 23,091 provisional ballots that haven’t been disqualified could ultimately be counted toward the results.

Thus far, county boards of elections have determined that at least 17,450 provisional ballots will not be counted. County-level election staff continue to research and review the remaining provisional ballots before reporting findings to the bipartisan county board members for final approval during public board meetings.

The numbers above are approximations based on the best available data through the state’s election information management system.

The following 17 counties have meetings scheduled today (Tuesday, Nov. 10). The number of absentee ballots that may be counted is also included. Additional ballots may be considered today if they arrive at the county board office before today’s meeting.

Table: Number of Absentee Ballots To Be Considered by County
CountyDateTimeLocationBallots To Be Considered
BladenNov. 105 p.m.Board of Elections, 301 S Cypress St., Elizabethtown, NC 2833754 ballots estimated to be considered
BurkeNov. 1010 a.m.Board of Elections, 2128 S. Sterling St., Morganton, NC 2865552 ballots estimated to be considered
CamdenNov. 109 a.m.Board of Elections, 117 NC Hwy 343 N, Camden, NC 2792138 ballots estimated to be considered
CaswellNov. 105:30 p.m.Board of Elections, 140 Main St., Yanceyville, NC 2737918 ballots estimated to be considered
ClayNov. 109 a.m.Board of Elections, 54 Church St., Hayesville, NC 2890429 ballots estimated to be considered
CurrituckNov. 109 a.m.Board of Elections, 2811 Caratoke Hwy, Currituck, NC 27929104 ballots estimated to be considered
DavidsonNov. 105 p.m.Board of Elections, 945 N Main St., Suite A, Lexington, NC 272921,000 ballots estimated to be considered
GranvilleNov. 109 a.m.County Board of Elections, 208 Wall Street, Oxford, NC 27565156 ballots estimated to be considered
HydeNov. 106 p.m.Board of Elections Office, 1223 Main Street, Swan Quarter, NC 278859 ballots estimated to be considered
MadisonNov. 109 a.m.Board of Elections, 140 Elizabeth Ln, Marshall, NC 2875337 ballots estimated to be considered
MartinNov. 108:30 a.m.Elections Office, 305 E Main St, Williamston, NC 2789230 ballots estimated to be considered
MecklenburgNov. 105 p.m.County Board of Elections 741 Kenilworth Ave Ste 202 Charlotte, NC 28204100 ballots estimated to be considered
NashNov. 104 p.m.Ag Center Auditorium, 1006 Eastern Ave, Nashville, NC 27856164 ballots estimated to be considered
NorthamptonNov. 1010 a.m.Commissioners Meeting Room, 9495 NC Hwy 305, Jackson, NC 2784546 ballots estimated to be considered
PersonNov. 105 p.m.County Board of Elections, 331 S. Morgan St., Roxboro, NC 275731 ballot estimated to be considered
ScotlandNov. 104 p.m.Board of Elections, 231 E Cronly Street, Laurinburg, NC 2835245 ballots estimated to be considered
WakeNov. 1010 a.m.County Board of Elections Operations Center, 1200 N. New Hope Rd, Raleigh, NC 276105,400 ballots estimated to be considered

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