Analysis of early voting

Of all ballots requested:

Overall, using both the mail-in requests (including those ballots that have been requested and those returned and accepted so far) and the in-person early voting method, North Carolina has the potential of seeing 1,192,190 votes cast before Tuesday's election.

Of all ballots accepted as votes:

Out of this 1.19 million votes cast, 1,155,131 ballots (both by mail-in and in-person) have been accepted as votes for Tuesday's election counting, with the following breakdowns by the different methods of balloting:

Among these accepted mail-in and in-person ballots:

• registered Democrats are 47.6 percent
• registered Republicans are 31.9 percent
• registered Unaffiliated voters are 20.3 percent
• Women are 54.2 percent
• White voters are 71.6 percent
• Black voters are 25.0 percent

Of all accepted ballots that were cast in-person:

Out of the accepted ballots that were cast in-person by North Carolinians, 1,097,560 have been recorded for votes on Tuesday.  This represents 121 percent of the 2010 numbers on the last day of early in-person voting in 2010.  The cumulative totals for these accepted in-person early votes are:

• registered Democratic voters cast 48.5 percent of the in-person accepted ballots, for a total of 532,026 ballots, representing 125 percent of the final day Democratic totals in 2010
• registered Republican voters cast 31.1 percent of the in-person accepted ballots, for a total of 341,523 ballots, representing 105 percent of the final day Republican totals in 2010
• registered Unaffiliated & Libertarian voters cast 20.4 percent of the in-person accepted ballots, for a total of 224,011 ballots, representing 145 percent of the final day unaffiliated/Libertarian totals in 2010.
• Female voters ended up casting 54.1 percent of the in-person accepted ballots
• White voters are 70.8 percent of the total in-person accepted ballots
• Black voters are 25.8 percent of the total in-person accepted ballots

• registered Democrats: 48.5 percent
• registered Republicans: 30.4 percent
• registered Unaffiliated/Libertarians: 21 percent
• Women: 53.5 percent
• White voters: 65.4 percent
• Black voters: 29.9 percent