News release from Buncombe County:
Voting has concluded for the 2024 General Election. Buncombe County precincts saw high voter turnout for the 2024 General Election. Final unofficial results show more than159,778 people voted, with 32,338 of those in-person on Election Day. So far 11,250 absentee ballots have been processed, with more expected from Election Day. For comparison, 162,137 people voted in the 2020 General Election. Download results at buncombecounty.org.
“We will never be able to find the right words to thank our election staff for pulling this off in the midst of the greatest natural disaster of our lifetimes,” said Election Services Director Corinne Duncan. “You had to make hard decisions – you didn’t evacuate with your families. Some of you lost homes and cars. Some of you lost your loved ones. But if there’s one thing we know in Buncombe County, it’s that elections matter. And thanks to you, our voters, who also experienced the same things, were able to turn out in great numbers. Despite all odds, we did this together in Buncombe County.”Election night results are unofficial. For results about individual races, visit the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) Results Dashboard. Election night marks the beginning of the statutorily required vote-counting and auditing processes after every election called “canvass.” Canvass is the entire process of ensuring votes have been counted correctly and required audits have been completed, culminating in the certification of results during meetings of every county board of elections. By law, these canvass meetings will be held by each county board of elections at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 15,2024.All eligible ballots will be counted. County boards of elections must count absentee-by-mail ballots on Election Day along with any provisional ballots.Provisional ballots cast during the election must be researched to determine voter eligibility. Ballots determined to be cast by eligible voters will be added to the results during the canvass period. N.C.G.S. § 163-182.2.Under North Carolina law, all ballots are counted by certified and tested machines. The sample audit count, also required by state law, helps ensure the reliability of the machine-tabulated results. Bipartisan teams in each county conduct hand-to-eye counts of all ballots in the randomly selected precincts and compare the results with the results of the machine counts. The sample audit will be open to the public and takes place Monday, Nov. 11 at 9 a.m.The State Board staff will randomly select two precincts in every county to be audited. For the purpose of this random selection, early voting locations and the entire collection of absentee-by-mail ballots received by a county are considered “precincts.” For information, see State Board to Randomly Select Precincts for Post-Election Audits.
The State Board of Elections and the County Board of Elections conduct additional audits to verify the accuracy of the count. The results of all audits will be submitted to the State Board as part of the final certification of the election. For more information, see the NCSBE Post-Election Procedures and Audits webpage.
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