In North Carolina, absentee ballot requests are more than 10 times ahead of where they were four years ago. That’s largely due to the pandemic and voter fears of contracting COVID-19 at crowded polling places.
County election officials were prepared for the deluge. Rusty Jacobs of WUNC reports.
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