North Carolina elections officials said it may take a few weeks for residents' "voter history" to update and show their participation in the 2020 general election.
"If you voted in person and inserted your ballot into a tabulator, your selections were immediately recorded on a memory card, and your votes were reported on election night as part of the unofficial results," said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections via ABC 11. "We respectfully ask that voters trust their bipartisan boards of elections across North Carolina. We are here to make sure your votes count, and they will."
The State Board of Elections and county boards of elections received numerous questions from voters regarding the status of their ballot in the 2020 general election as North Carolina has yet to declare a winner in its presidential race.
Individuals who voted in-person on Election Day were counted and reported publicly on Tuesday night, as their ballots were inserted into a tabulator. Registered voters can check the status of their ballot by using the Voter Search tool.
There has yet to be a winner declared in North Carolina's presidential election after months of speculation that the Tar Heel state would be one of the nation's most closely contested races.
North Carolina is among a handful of states that have not been called as the margin between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, remains extremely close and a large amount of absentee and provisional ballots have not been counted.
Trump currently leads Biden by about 76,000 votes in North Carolina, but there are still 116,000 mail-in ballots that were requested by voters, but haven't been received by the board of elections or counted as of Thursday morning, ABC 11 reports.
The unofficial results as of Thursday morning include more than 977,000 absentee by mail votes cast before November 2, 3.6 million ballots cast by one-stop early voting and approximately 900,000 ballots cast at Election Day precincts, ABC 11 reports.
"North Carolina stopped counting votes on election night because there were no more votes to count at that time," State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said during a news conference on Wednesday via ABC 11. "There are also no more ballots that can be cast for election. All eligible ballots have already left the voters hands."
Absentee ballots had to be postmarked on or prior to November 3 and are counted as long as they were received by the county board of elections before 5:00 p.m. on November 12.
Any mail-in ballot that arrived after 5:00 p.m. on Monday did not count toward North Carolina's Election Day total, so they are not included in the current projections. Additionally, provisional ballots haven't been counted as of Thursday and it is unclear how many were submitted during early voting or on Election Day, but the total will be announced before noon on Thursday, ABC 11 reports.