Early voting opened with a bang Monday.
1270 early voters countywide Monday, here are totals by location:
- Ramshead on campus 605
- Carrboro Town Hall 226
- Seymour Center 243
- BOE office in Hillsborough 168
- Mt Zion (Cedar Grove) 28
You will be able to track locations here http://www.co.orange.nc.us/elect/documents/2012PrimaryOne-stopTotals.pdf
(I got the Monday totals early)
By party (inlcuding last Thursday and Friday in Hillsborough:
- D 59.4%
- L 0.3%
- R 12.1%
- U 28.0%
Also, of the 377 unaffiliated voters, they chose ballots as follows:
- Democratic primary 54%
- Libertarian primary 1%
- Republican primary 17%
- took unaffiliated ballot so just voted on Amendment One: 28%
Issues:
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Awesome news! When I voted at Ram's Head this morning, I was number 629!
at 5pm on Thursday. What is more interesting is that there were about a dozen people in the process of registering and voting, and ten of them were college kids. That's wonderful!
Love seeing college kids exercising their right to vote, and thanks to the State of North Carolina for allowing registration and voting during the early voting period.I'll be voting on Monday, maybe in Carrboro (Monuts are coming!), but probably at Ramshead to boost the numbers there to help make the case for having an on-campus site for early voting in the future.
At around 11:30 am.
Good news! Compared to their colleagues' districts, Ellie Kinnaird's Senate District and Verla Insko's House district have the highest numbers of early votes in the state. http://www.carolinatransparency.com/votetracker/ Follow me on Twitter @MayorMarkK or on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/91222152476?ap=1 or http://www.facebook.com/mark.kleinschmidt
Seems like a no brainer to keep on campus voting as a permanent fixture of our elections, at least so long as the university's doors are still open, which I’ll imagine they will be for countless years to come (even if this general assembly isn’t too happy about it!)Thanks for sharing those numbers!
Any sense of why Duke beat UNC? In terms of early voting, that puzzles me. I don't know where their early voting location is, but I would guess it's no more attractive to off-campus people than Rams Head. Assuming that's right, did they get a higher percentage of students/faculty/staff to vote? With 6500 undergrads to UNC's 18,400 their "win" is very impressive and I wonder if there are lessons learned there?
And just to clarify, my interest is not in what they voted for, or how they voted, but in making early voting on campus work well for the voters, the BOE, and campus operation.
From the Planetarium, to that place, I don't know what to call it, downtown near Timeout, and now back on campus at Ramshead. Not that there haven't been reasons for the switches. But now that we have a location that is squarely on campus, maybe leaving it there for several elections in a row will help. Has Duke's spot been equally unstable, or have they been in one location longer? New and young voters have a steep enough learning curve even without an early voting site hot potato game going on around them.
Several times a day, nearly every Duke undergrad walks by the building where early voting took place. According to my favorite Duke student*, there were people posted lots of places nearby who were encouraging students to vote right then and there were people speaking up about it in classes. She reports that it was a constant topic of conversation. I think a higher percentage of Duke's undergrads live on campus than students at UNC but I don't know that for a fact. *Said student is my daughter, so be nice. Don't poke the mama lion! ;-)
A large number of UNC students may vote in the town they grew up in, and will be in their hometown on Election Day since exams have ended for the spring semester. Since Duke has a much higher percentage of out-of-state students, their only chance to vote against Amendment One was Early Vote at Duke.
If you allocate the unaffiliated based on what party ballot they chose (to see ballots cast by party primary), you get:D 74.6%L 0.6%R 16.9%U 7.9% (they got just the amendment, plus if in OCSD they got school board ballot)