What’s up with mail-in voting in NC in 2026?

3 September 2026 at 20:09

Durham County Board of Elections staff process absentee ballots at the agency's warehouse on Sept. 29, 2020. Each blue bin holds ballots from a different precinct. The workers are removing ballots from absentee-by-mail envelopes and flatten them, to be scanned in batches later on. Jordan Wilkie / Carolina Public Press

Answers to frequently asked questions about mail-in voting in North Carolina, which gets underway Sept. 4, the earliest in the nation.

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