NC election officials expect around 1 million people to vote on Election Day

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Posted November 3, 2020 4:00 a.m. EST
Updated November 3, 2020 11:25 a.m. EST

... 11 a.m.: Four polling sites opened late ... State election officials will meet later to discuss whether or not hours will be extended at those .. sites ...

10:30 a.m.: State Board of Elections director Karen Brinson Bell on Tuesday encouraged all registered voters who haven't yet secured their vote to do so before 7:30 p.m. Around 97% of NC votes are expected to be counted by Tuesday night, although the results won't be considered official until the end of a 10-day canvas period in the state. During that time, election officials will count absentee ballots postmarked by Nov. 3, and counties will also conduct audits ...

https://www.wral.com/nc-election-officials-expect-around-1-million-people-to-vote-on-election-day/19367730/

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1. I drove past three polling locations just now and ...

... it's quiet. It's more like a lazy off-year primary than a presidential election, and far less than the four hour line I stood in two weeks ago.

FWIW, they were all in Cary.

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3. 7.3 million registered voters

3,618,922
One-Stop Early Voting Ballots Cast

961,295
Absentee By-Mail Ballots Cast

136,700
Outstanding Absentee Ballots

(source: https://www.ncsbe.gov)

So at least 4580217 ballot cast by yesterday (about 62%)

If 1000000 vote today, turnout will be 76% (compared to 69% in 2016)

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2. 4.5 million people have already voted in NC

Like many parts of the country, election day 2020 may not be as busy, not because of low turnout, but because people have already voted.

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4. "Election workers ... at the Chapel Hill Public Library said there are only a few hundred

registered voters at that precinct left to cast their ballot"

from the article in OP