More than 58 percent of registered voters in North Carolina have already cast ballots in this year’s elections, with a day of early voting and Election Day itself still to go.
Raleigh, N.C. — More than 58 percent of registered voters in North Carolina have already cast ballots in this year’s elections, with a day of early voting and Election Day itself still to go. The state’s record for voter turnout is 70 percent, set during the 2008 general election in which Barack Obama was first elected president. To break that record, about 870,000 people need to vote across the state on Saturday or next Tuesday. North Carolina came close to breaking the record four years ago, when more than 4.7 million people voted in the state. More than 4.2 million people have already voted in this election, either in-person at early voting sites or by mailing in absentee ballots. „I feel good,“ said 19-year-old Makayla Banks, a first-time voter.
