Officially canvassed election results were releaesd by the Orange County Board of Elections Friday afternoon.
About 160 of the 400 provisional ballots were counted, along with civilian absentee ballots received thru 11/9 and military and overseas ballots received thru 11/15. A total of 77,050 votes were cast (compared with 75,194 in 2008). Prez wound up 70.22% to 28.06%, Dalton had 64.44, to McCrory's 32.42% with the Libertarian 3.08% (above Howe's statewide average of 2.1%)
The official canvass inched the YES on Transit up from 58.83% to 58.88%.
I also got from the BoE some stats broken down by early vote site (the online canvass has all five sites lumped in together - the totals will be broken out by precinct by early January).
Here are some selected races:
Rams Seymour Carrboro BoE MtZion(Cedar Grove)
Obama 76.61% 80.44% 87.20% 56.60% 76.84%
Dalton 68.44 75.44 82.88 51.96 73.85
Coleman 76.70 80.44 87.42 57.31 77.41
Pelissier 77.08 80.64 87.54 56.71 77.24
Price 77.24 80.79 87.82 57.83 78.14
Ervin IV 67.64 77.53 83.24 56.33 76.56
TRANSIT 70.29 65.98 76.17 43.45 58.64
some other stats- there were 3,814 absentee ballots, Obama carried 70.01% -- and they went for transit with 62.25% yes (above the county transit YESA average of 58.88% )
Issues:
Comments
516 extra absentee ballots in the total
In addition to the 140 provisional ballots counted, it looks like 516 absentee ballots were added - 393 civilian, 119 overseas, and 4 military -- under a new state law effective in 2012 -- used to be that the cutoff was day before election, this year it was 11/9 for civilians, 11/15 for military and overseas