When do we start getting consistent daily updates from states with modeled/registered party IDs? I know they don't mean too much, except maybe this year when most voters are likely to vote using VBM, but at least it gives me something to look forward to in this subforum.
As with many aspects of North Carolina voting and registration, the data on who has returned an absentee ballot is publicly available.
https://www.ncsbe.gov/results-data/absentee-dataCurrent Accepted Ballots:Democrat — 13,075 (57.6%)Unaffiliated — 6,557 (28.9%)
Republican — 3,018 (13.3%)Other — 59 (0.3%)
Do with that what you will. It's only 22,709 votes. Or 0.5% of the total votes cast in North Carolina in 2016.