Disenfranchised By Election Reform? Hardly.

Carolina Journal’s Rick Henderson includes this item among his Dispatches from the Campaign Trail for May 5:

The early voters have spoken. And they don’t seem to have been “disenfranchised” by the General Assembly’s move to cut the duration of early voting from 17 days to 10, as many liberals warned. Nearly 280,000 ballots were cast during the early voting period, according to the State Board of Elections. That’s 100,000 more than were cast in the 2010 primary. Democrats outnumbered Republicans, 47.8 percent to 33.3 percent, with 18.8 percent of the ballots from unaffiliated voters.