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North Carolina Is The First To Mail Out Mail-In Ballots


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North Carolina will be one of the state's that decides this fall's presidential election, plus which party controls the U.S. Senate. It also has one of the most watched gubernatorial elections in the U.S. this fall, plus every seat in the North Carolina General Assembly is on the ballot, all of the council state, seats on county commissions, city councils, town aldermen...you get the point. North Carolina is first in the country in this respect - it's the first state to mail out mail-in ballots that have been requested by voters. They go out Friday September 4 th , and because of the pandemic, requests for absentee mail-in ballots this year in North Carolina are more than 15 times greater than at this point four years ago. BPR's Matt Bush chatted over Zoom with Buncombe County elections director Corrine Duncan about all things mail-in ballot for the debut episode of Blue Ridge Public Radio's new program BPR News Presents: The Porch. You can hear it Friday morning September 4th at 9 a.m.,
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