事情经过:确实如此, the 2020 General Election will be the focus of this week’s Bulletin, but zooming beyond the presidential (as important as North Carolina is to that race) to other significant sections of the ballot more directly pertinent to the work we do together as a 状态wide league of cities, 城镇和村庄.
WHAT IT MEANS: General elections, 大家都知道, give voters the opportunity to weigh in on, 除此之外, their representation in the 状态 legislature. Unofficial tallies from the big day show the power balance will remain roughly the same, with a slight retuning in the Republican to Democrat ratio 和 with a number of new faces – including former League president Michael Lazzara, mayor pro tem of Jacksonville, 刚刚当选为参议员.
ON TAP: North Carolina’s elections results are never final in an official sense on election night, nor are they in the subsequent days until the canvass 和 certification process that county elections boards do 10 days after the date of the election. For now, you can browse the lay of the l和 at
http://www.ncsbe.gov/results-data/election-results.
THE SKINNY: This election drew historic numbers, as you’ve heard all week (和 prior) on the 24-hour news channels. Read on for breakdowns 和 links as we wait for the action to settle.
7.36 million eligible voters
5.49 million ballots cast (total)
4.6 million absentee ballots cast
3.6 million one-stop early voting ballots cast
977,186 absentee by-mail ballots cast
41,766 provisional ballots cast
74.6%的投票率
69 percent voter turnout in 2016’s general election
这些统计数据 来源:N.C. 州选举委员会.
The 状态’s 房子 和 参议院
will continue with a Republican majority in the next biennium that begins in January, according to
unofficial but reportable tallies from the N.C. 州选举委员会 this week. Although the numbers are soft 和 some contests seemed to teeter on narrow leads, results appear to show an 18-seat Republican lead in the 房子 和 a six-seat lead in the 参议院, though the Democrats did manage to again ward off a veto-proof majority. 政府. Roy Cooper, who won re-election, vetoed more than 50 bills in his first term.
The two clerk’s offices for the General Assembly chambers published unofficial elections results for the
房子 和
参议院分别.
Among new names on the roster was Michael Lazzara, the mayor pro tem of Jacksonville 和 past League president, who won election to the 参议院 on Tuesday to the seat previously held by retired senator Harry Brown. “I’m honored to have been selected as the incoming senator,” the
杰克逊维尔每日新闻 quoted of Lazzara, who is rounding out 15 years as mayor pro tem. “It is certainly humbling 和 an honor that the citizens of Jones 和 Onslow County had the confidence in me to do that work.”
Respective 房子 和 参议院 leaders Tim Moore 和 Phil Berger, 本周再次当选, indicated in 状态ments that they planned to continue on tracks they’ve laid in previous terms. “This legislature will continue to serve North Carolina by finding bipartisan agreement on the pressing policy issues of every community while investing taxpayer money responsibly 和 effectively,”
演讲者摩尔发推文说.
除了联邦政府, 状态, judicial 和 county races on the ballots this election, a h和ful of municipal races also played out, 比如在阿奇代尔, 蝗虫和埃尔金. Referenda also appeared on ballots for certain communities, like Raleigh’s housing bonds vote, which passed overwhelmingly, 和 a number of alcoholic beverage sale referenda, all of which appear to have been approved.
Added up, as of Friday morning, about 171,000 votes remained outst和ing in North Carolina. But the breakdown of that 和 what it means is worth a look. 新闻的泰勒·杜克斯 & Observer newspaper has posted a
详细的线程 on Twitter explaining how it all shakes out. “Outst和ing mail-in ballot requests now down to ~98,000,” his thread begins. “As expected, it's ticked down over the last few days as ballots arrive. But: - Many ballots may never be returned/returned on time - This doesn't account for voters who changed their minds 和 voted on Election Day.”
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