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Unaffiliated Registrations Grow By 229,000 From Election Day 2008 Through August 2012 PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 21 September 2012 15:18

RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - The influence of unaffiliated voters continue to grow in North Carolina. According to a voter registration analysis by the North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation, 229,000 additional people have registered as unaffiliated since Election Day 2008. 

 
Democrats lost roughly 103,000 registrants (2,866,669 then to 2,763,206 now). Republicans lost just more than 4,000 (2,002,416 then to 1,998,076 now).
 
Despite the shuffling, Democrats still hold a substantial edge over Republicans in voter registrations -- 43.2 percent to 31.2 percent respectively. Unaffiliated voters now comprise 25.3 percent of the 6,264,733 voters registered as of mid-August 2012.
 
Voter registration deadline for November 6 General Election is October 12 at 5 p.m.
 
One-stop early voting takes place from October 18 through November 3.
 
Last Updated on Friday, 21 September 2012 15:19
 

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