Did the early birds get the worms?
I don't know, but some of them certainly cast their ballots.
According to the Guilford County Board of Elections, 716 Voters in Greensboro and Pleasant Garden turned out during the early voting period, plus one person who voted a provisional ballot.
"Our biggest day was this past Friday, we had a little over 100," said Tim Tsujii, early voting coordinator for Guilford County.
A law recently passed by the General Assembly allowed voters to register to vote and vote on the same day during the early voting period. It was controversial because some feared that it would lead to a flood of unqualified voters.
I can't tell whether they're qualified or not, but the nine voters who took advantage of same day registration during the early voting period hardly counts as a flood.
Update:By the way, 716 voters doesn't sound like a lot, but only about 300 people cast early voting ballots in 2005, the last comparable primary.
Update:Still, that's four-tenths of one percent (0.42 % to be exact) of the voters eligible to cast ballots in the two elections.
There are 166,503 voters eligible for the Greensboro election and 3,470 eligible in Pleasant Garden.