Election officials: IL early voting breaks records

According to data released by the North Carolina Secretary of State’s office, a total of 3.1 million votes were cast early in North Carolina this year.

The Republican National Committee said GOP voters make up 1.4 percent more of the share of early voters than at this point in 2012, and Democrats make up 5 percent less of the early vote share.

Even though Republicans are now trailing Democrats, David Chiokadze, a spokesman for Trump’s Florida’s campaign, said in an email to reporters that Republicans trailed Democrats by a much wider margin heading into Election Day back in 2012.

If you are registered to vote but your name does not appear in the voter roll in the election district in which you are registered, you are entitled to complete an affidavit or provisional ballot.

The trend was obvious in Chicago on Monday where the line at an early voting site wrapped around the block. “If Election Day turnout is just half of what it was in 2012, more than 1 million people will vote in Dade”.

But a CNN analysis of early voting paints a very different picture and suggests that Clinton has underperformed President Obama’s 2012 performance in the Tar Heel State and Trump has outperformed Mitt Romney.

Civil rights groups said they were receiving complaints about intimidating behavior at voting sites in Pennsylvania and Florida as supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and backers of Democrat Hillary Clinton went to cast their ballots.

Voigt says the stress of the election is causing her 15-year-old daughter to have nightmares. Be sure to follow @elec_ballots (compiled by University of Michigan) for a list of Twitter accounts for county- and state-level election officials, state-level Leagues of Women Voters, and state-level political parties.

Early voting on Saturday in Wake Forest.

So more ballots will still need to be counted after Election Day. Early voting already exceeded 2012 figures by Friday, but percentages for Democratic and black voters were lower. In the counties marked as “suppressed” on the map, both black and white turnout suffered over the first week of early voting. A 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down a portion of the law that had required certain states and jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to receive pre-approval from the U.S. Department of Justice for any election law change.

Half an hour later, the surprise could come from the battleground states of OH and North Carolina, which have 18 and 15 electoral votes, respectively. As of Monday, 7,360 more Republicans than Democrats had cast their ballots. Altogether, According to a report from the Leadership Conference Education Fund on poll closures, there are 27 fewer polling places in North Carolina in 2016 than in the previous presidential election.

North Carolina has been the epicenter of voter suppression efforts during the 2016 campaign, and the North Carolina Republican Party is now celebrating the stats showing those efforts worked.

We can all agree that no member of a jury should vote on guilt or innocence until all the evidence has been presented at a trial.