early voting in this state is basically absentee voting - you do it the old fashioned way with a paper ballot and a #2 pencil. fill in the box by each of your choices, give them the ballot back and they scan it into some kind of tally machine. paper and pencil is kind of reassuring - the only way it can crash is if you break the pencil point
i have no idea if NC's computerizd their regular voting process or not...