FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – An elector pledged to Donald Trump says she's getting frustrated waiting for the election to be called.

Susan Mills is one of 15 electors pledged to cast their ballots for Donald Trump on North Carolina's behalf next month. Democrats have 15 of their own lined up for Joe Biden. Mills says she's proud to support the incumbent President Trump.

“I think that President Trump did an outstanding job with everything he's done,” she says. “I think one of the things he could have done more about was talk about the positive things, how the economy has grown.”

Under the system created by the United States Constitution, popular votes for a presidential candidate technically go to electors. Each state gets a number of electors equal to its total representation in both houses of Congress, 15 in North Carolina's case. Those electors then vote for a president and a vice president—this is the Electoral College. This year, the electors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia meet on December 14. North Carolina's electors will meet at the Old State Capitol that day.

Although Trump currently leads in North Carolina by more than 76,000 votes, nobody has officially called the state for him. That's because there are still some 116,000 outstanding mail-in absentee ballots, plus another 40,766 provisional ballots. Those numbers could be enough to clinch a Trump victory in North Carolina or tip the state to Biden.

Mills says she disagrees with the decision to extend to nine days the grace period for absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day. She says she can't understand why it's taking so long to come up with a final decision.

“It's hard for me to believe that I won't be going on the 14^th. I firmly believe that North Carolina is going to go for President Trump,” she says. “I'm sitting around here waiting and wondering when it's finally going to be called, and it's completely ridiculous. We just need to be able to know a decision.”

Even if Trump wins North Carolina but Biden ends up winning the 270 electoral votes necessary to become president, Mills says she would still be proud to cast an electoral vote for the incumbent president.

Spectrum News 1 also asked the North Carolina Democratic Party to put us in touch with one of their electors for this story. Party officials did not respond.