Almost 20K ballots for the 2024 Election already cast on the Outer Banks
With one week to go before Election Day 2024, almost 20,000 votes have been cast in the three Outer Banks counties as of Monday.
Data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections posted Tuesday morning show Dare has the most ballots cast either by mail or in-person of any county in the northeast corner of the state, with 13,432.
That’s a turnout of 39.93% in Dare County with five days remaining in the early voting period and a week for mail-in ballots to be received by the Board of Elections office.
12,539 ballots have been received at the early voting sites in Kill Devil Hills, Manteo and Buxton, with 778 civilian mail-ins, 85 from overseas voters and 30 from members of the military.
Dare is just behind the pace set in the 2020 general election, when 13,802 ballots had been received by the 12th day of early voting.
In Currituck, 6,349 voters cast a ballot in-person, 355 civilians by mail, 35 by military and 15 from overseas, for a total of 6,754 and a pre-election day turnout of 26.92%.
Through the 12th day of early voting in Currituck, 7,000 votes had been cast ahead of the November 2020 election.
Hyde County has received 536 ballots (16.8% of registered voters) as of Monday, with 490 in-person, 40 civilian by mail, four from Hyde residents overseas and two in the military.
A two-day period of early voting was available in Ocracoke last Thursday and Friday, but those numbers were not included in the latest submission to the state.
The 12th day pace in Hyde this election is behind 2020, when 672 votes had been cast.
Elsewhere in northeastern North Carolina, Pasquotank has 8,331 ballots cast; Chowan 3,361; Perquimans 2,733; Washington Co. 2,539; Camden 2,361; Gates 1,868; and Tyrrell 578.
Statewide over 3.1 million voters, 39.7% of eligible voters, have already cast a ballot through Monday.
In-person early voting accounts for 3,013,104 ballots, civilian mail-in 148,223, overseas 15,364 and military 4,801.
More than 2.6 million voters had cast ballots after 12 days of in-person voting in 2020. Factoring in increases in registered voters between 2020 and 2024, in-person early voting is up 2.1% over 2020.
Additionally, turnout in the 25 Western North Carolina counties affected by Hurricane Helene continues to outpace statewide turnout according to the State Board of Elections.
In-person early voting in North Carolina runs through Saturday, Nov. 2, and sites and schedules vary by county. To view county-by-county schedules, use the Early Voting Site Search tool.
