NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Duke Energy says more than 263,000 customers in North Carolina are without electricity after the remnants of Hurricane Zeta passed through the state. Catawba County reported there have been more than 19,000 customer outages. Mecklenburg County has just under 17,000 outages. The News & Record of Greensboro reports that four early voting sites in Guilford County had to rely on generators on Thursday after Zeta knocked out power. County election officials say voters were still able to cast their ballots and things were continuing “smoothly” at all polling sites. At least three people are known dead as the result of the storm.