After five days of early in-person voting in North Carolina, two distinct trends have emerged: Republicans are increasingly participating in early voting, a shift from previous years, while fewer Black voters have taken part in early, in-person voting compared to the same period four years ago.
At this point in the 2020 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, 281,000 Black Democrats in North Carolina had cast early, in-person ballots. This year, however, after five days, that number has dropped to just over 206,000, marking approximately a 27% decrease, according to data from the John Locke Foundation’s Vote Tracker.
