By Kevin Spradlin
PeeDeePost.com
* ‘Wow’: 874 first day early voters
ROCKINGHAM — Another 720 voters cast their ballots on Friday, bringing the two-day early voting total to 1,594.
The rate is a bit shy of being four times greater than the first two days of early voting in the last mid-term election in 2010.
“Very pleased,” said Connie Kelly, director of elections for Richmond County.
In 2010, 455 voters cast their ballots in the first two days of early voting. Kelly said the 2010 general election didn’t attract this year’s day one total until the fourth day.
There are 30,530 registered voters in Richmond County.
Early voting continues Monday at the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Office and then, beginning Oct. 29, in Ellerbe and Hamlet. The full schedule:
* At the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Office, 123 Caroline St., Rockingham, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the on the following days of early voting: Oct. 27, Oct. 28, Oct. 29, Oct. 30 and Oct. 31.
* At Cole Auditorium in Hamlet and at Ellerbe Town Hall, 108 W. Page St., Ellerbe, early voting will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 31 and from 9 a.m .to 1 p.m. Nov. 1.
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