North Carolina kicks off mail voting as requests spike

[brooklynite]

Source: AP News

RALEIGH (AP) — Mail balloting in the presidential election is set to begin Friday as North Carolina starts sending out more than 600,000 ballots to voters — responding to a massive spike in requests that has played out across the country as voters look for a safer way to cast ballots during the pandemic.

The 618,000 ballots requested in the initial wave in North Carolina were more than 16 times the number the state sent out at the same time four years ago. The requests came overwhelmingly from Democratic and independent voters, a reflection of a new partisan divide over mail voting.

The North Carolina numbers were one more bit of evidence backing up what experts have been predicting for months: Worries about the virus are likely to push tens of millions of voters to vote by mail for the first time, transforming the way the election is conducted and the vote is counted.

In 2016, just one-quarter of the electorate cast votes through the mail. This time, elections officials expect the majority of voters to do so. Wisconsin has already received nearly 100,000 more requests than it did in the 2016 election. In Florida, 3,347,960 people requested ballots during the 2016 election. The state has already received 4,270,781 requests.



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[JustGene]

1. Hope they are watching those guys from the "18 fiasco n/t

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Trumptards voting twice

[R Merm]

3. They have caught people in the past who voted twice.

It will not be on election day but they will be caught. In NC you can search any registered voter and pull of their voting record. It will show when they voted and how they voted. tRump's comments will do two things, checking to see if your vote was counted will cause the lines to be long, and the local voting sites will not know if your vote was recived since they don't open the ballots until they are counted.