On Wednesday, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee filed its latest lawsuit against Montana Gov. These court battles have further confused the process, with many election officials awaiting court rulings before they can start sending out absentee ballots. She noted that North Carolina, as well as a number of others states, now allows voters to track the status of their mail-in ballots online.ĭisagreements over absentee voting have led to dozens of lawsuits around the country, with Democrats pushing to loosen the rules and Republicans trying to tighten them or keep existing restrictions in place. "This is unprecedented, the number of absentee by mail requests that we have received." She said the ballots will be sent out on a "rolling" basis.īut that led North Carolina's Bell to warn that people showing up to check on the status of their ballots could lead to long lines and delay at the polls on Election Day and cause unnecessary confusion and health risks. "What we do need to ask of our voters is to be patient," Bell said Thursday. Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, had one request as the balloting begins. Most analysts believe that at least half the electorate will vote by mail or early in person, largely because the pandemic has made many voters reluctant to show up at potentially crowded polling places on Nov. 18, with many states following not long afterward. Minnesota will be the first state to offer early in-person voting starting Sept. Other states will begin doing the same over the next few weeks in an election that's expected to break all records in the number of ballots cast early and by mail. The 2020 general election has begun with North Carolina becoming the first state to start mailing out absentee ballots on Friday, two months before Election Day.
North Carolina is scheduled to begin sending out more than 600,000 requested absentee ballots to voters on Friday. A forklift operator loads absentee ballots for mailing Thursday at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C.
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