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Early voting finally starts in North Carolina [1]

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Date: 2024-09-20  

Two weeks after the scheduled September 6th mailing of absentee ballots, they have finally gone out to military voters and citizens living outside the United States.

County boards were prepared to send absentee ballots out on Sept. 6, the deadline for absentee ballots to be sent under state law. However, rulings by the N.C. Court of Appeals and N.C. Supreme Court required election officials to remove the We The People party line from the presidential contest on the ballot, including the party’s presidential nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and vice-presidential nominee, Nicole Shanahan.

As a result, election officials had to code, design, proof, and print new ballots without the We The People party line.

The court ruling meant requiring 2.9 million prepared ballots to be reprinted. The 100 county boards of elections, with the help of State Board staff and printing vendors, succeeded in printing new ballots ahead of the Sept. 21 federal deadline to send ballots to voters.

On Tuesday September 24, absentee ballots will be mailed to the rest of North Carolina voters.

“The hard work of State Board staff, county board staff, and our printing vendors ensured that we could meet the federal deadline and start voting,” said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the NC State Board of Elections. “North Carolina voters, please take it from here.”

Source: www.ncsbe.gov/...

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