NC Election: How Many Provisional Ballots Were Cast In Iredell

IREDELL COUNTY, NC — A final tally of how North Carolina voted in the Nov. 3 election now hangs on processing mail-in ballots received after Election Day and provisional ballots.

As of Thursday, the state election officials said there were 116,200 absentee ballots that had been requested but not yet received. Provided the ballots are postmarked Nov. 3, those ballots will be counted toward vote totals through Nov. 12.

The state will also process 40,766 provisional ballots — the ballots cast when a voter's name does not appear on the poll book or there are other questions regarding the voter's eligibility. During the 2016 election, for example, about 61,000 provisional ballots were cast in North Carolina, of which about 27,000 were counted.

In Iredell County, 341 provisional ballots were cast in the Nov. 3 election, NCSBE said.

Both the outstanding absentee ballots and provisional ballots will advance toward the state's final total once they're approved at the county level next week. Each county election board will meet to ratify the results, by Nov. 12 or Nov. 13, according to NCSBE. The results will then go forward for certification by the state board on Nov. 24.

"After Election Day, each county board of elections meets before certifying the results to make decisions or provisional applications submitted by voters," the North Carolina State Board of Elections said Thursday in a statement. "If the board determines that the voter is eligible, the provisional ballot is counted. If the voters is eligible for some contests on the ballot but not others, the eligible contests will be counted for that voter."

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