Only one of 13 counties in the North Carolina mountains identified as worst hit by the State Board of Elections has not accepted at least 10% of registered voters’ ballots after three days of early in-person voting.
Across the 13 counties, total early voting turnout is 11.5%, including 10.4% for doing so in person.
Hard-hit Buncombe County, with more than twice as many registered voters as any of the other dozen counties, has had 22,145 vote early (10.2%), including 19,687 in person (9.1%).
Of the 13 identified by the state board, only Rutherford County at 8.4% is below double figures turnout early.
Rightly feared as a region where voter turnout could be impacted by Hurricane Helene’s devastation, the counties represent 601,999 registrants as of Saturday.
Lawmakers in Raleigh added a dozen more counties to the list to make 25 in all granted ability to make needed changes as recovery from Helene continues.
Early numbers from the State Board of Elections back him up.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_91fb4c4c-8f2c-11ef-b0a0-e7f34364fa5b.html
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