2016 Postmortem

RandySF

(58,935 posts) Thu Oct 20, 2016, 02:41 AM Oct 2016

NC: Record turnout expected for early voting in Wilmington area

SOUTHEASTERN N.C. -- Counties in the Cape Fear region are preparing for potentially record turnout as early voting in the contentious 2016 General Election gets underway Thursday.

New Hanover County Board of Elections officials are expecting 60,000 to 67,000 people to vote early this year across its five one-stop locations, said elections director Derek Bowens. The projection is a bold increase over previous presidential elections, including the 53,924 early votes cast in 2008 and 60,259 in 2012 -- which amounted to 59 percent of registered voters, Bowens said.

The trend for one-stop voting is up," Bowens said. "If it continues, as we expect it to do, we will see record turnout for one-stop voting this year."

Early voting in North Carolina was extended an extra week as part of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in July, which also threw out many of the provisions in the state's voter registration law that were deemed to be discriminatory.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20161019/record-turnout-expected-for-early-voting-in-wilmington-area

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NC: Record turnout expected for early voting in Wilmington area (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2016 OP

New Hanover County--Wilmington, NC--is Republican country. mnhtnbb Oct 2016 #1

That area is heavily red obamanut2012 Oct 2016 #2

Many here are angry at McCrory! karmaqueen Oct 2016 #3

mnhtnbb

(31,395 posts)

1. New Hanover County--Wilmington, NC--is Republican country.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 20, 2016, 06:06 AM

Oct 2016

In fact, that's where Trump's daughter in law is from, in Wrightsville Beach. (Lara, married to Eric).

Here's a link to the outcome by counties for the 2012 general election in NC. Click on the map button on the right of the screen and it will show how each county voted.

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/42923/123365/Web01/en/summary.html

obamanut2012

(26,082 posts)

2. That area is heavily red

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 20, 2016, 06:10 AM

Oct 2016

But, is a college and beach town, and was also one of THE major slaveholding area of NC, and there is also a large black population, so this will be interesting.

karmaqueen

(714 posts)

3. Many here are angry at McCrory!

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 20, 2016, 07:20 AM

Oct 2016

The movie industry was very big here and McCrory and the republicans destroyed it on purpose...they did not like the Hollywood type!

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