Sept. 4: Mail-in voting kicks off in North Carolina

[littlemissmartypants]

https://www.kpq.com/early-voting-starts-today-heres-what-to-expect/

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Sept. 4: Mail-in voting kicks off in North Carolina

In North Carolina, election officials are starting to mail ballots to any eligible voter who requested an absentee ballot in advance on Friday, officially kicking off the fall voting season.

Both legal and political pressure led to state lawmakers enacting changes to vote-by-mail in the state in June, which included allowing voters to request absentee ballots by email or fax, creating a new ballot tracking system that will allow voters to track their ballot, requiring election officials to notifying voters if there is a problem with their ballot and giving them an opportunity to correct it.

The result is a crush of absentee ballots requests this year — a 21-fold increase from the same time in 2016 — according to election officials.

So far, 591,379 North Carolina voters have requested ballots by mail, compared with just under 28,000 four years ago, according to data compiled by Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida, with the U.S. Elections Project. Registered Democrats account for 53% of those making the requests, while 31% are unaffiliated voters and roughly 16% are registered Republicans.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-carolina-1st-state-begin-voting-president-sees/story?id=72514498

North Carolina, 1st state to begin voting for president, sees record number of requests for absentee ballots
The state will begin its mail-in voting process on Sept. 4.

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GOTV!
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[BKDem]

1. Let the voter fraud begin!

[littlemissmartypants]

3. You said it! Everything is so damned convoluted this year.

Last edited Sat Sep 5, 2020, 02:33 PM - Edit history (1)

I was going to request a mail-in absentee ballot but I don't have anyone to witness it. I usually vote early anyway, which isn't too crowded, so I'm going to mask-up and do that.

I won't be working the polls though. I will miss seeing the voters file in and I'm a helper so there's that. Coronavirus is a hardy deterrent to altruism in this case, unfortunately.

The great thing about NC voting is that as soon as you cast your vote a poll worker scans it into the state’s system so the votes are tabulated almost immediately. That's why in 2018 North Carolina was called so early. I'm hoping that part of the process is just as smooth this time.

GOTV!
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[sheshe2]

2. K&R