(The Center Square) – More than 56,000 people have taken advantage of same-day registration during the early in-person window in North Carolina, pushing the voter roll to nearly 7.8 million.

In the last two weeks, the unaffiliated bloc is up 23,228, Republicans 17,656, and Democrats 13,434. The total for unaffiliated registrations is just 7,862 shy of the combined total of Republicans and Democrats, and at 41% is more than 3% better than its total share.