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From Fox News: North Carolina election officials are adjusting their voting rules to ensure residents in areas impacted by the recent hurricane damage can vote early in the upcoming election.
Hurricane Helene made a damaging sweep across the southeast, covering swing states that had already started early voting. But the storm caused severe damage to several predominantly red counties and early voting centers as focus shifted to disaster relief.
On Monday, the North Carolina Elections Board passed a bipartisan emergency resolution that reformed the state’s early voting process in 13 counties. Notably, all except one, Buncombe, voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020.
The adjustments include changing or adding voting sites and maintaining their availability, extending the hours when a voting site is open, and adding or reducing days that any site is open within the early voting period, according to the election board.
The deadline to request an absentee ballot in the 13 counties affected has been moved to Monday, Nov. 4.
Also, voters in these counties will now be allowed to submit their absentee ballots to another county’s election board, instead of their local counties.
The 13 counties in western North Carolina that will see the changes applied to their early voting processes include: Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania, Watauga, and Yancey.
As residents in Asheville, North Carolina, recover from Hurricane Helene, election officials face challenges facilitating November voting for over 1 million registered voters in affected areas. The state election board has extended early voting hours and will assist voters at… pic.twitter.com/5o8sMDEdqt
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) October 7, 2024
BREAKING: The North Carolina State Board of Elections unanimously passes a list of emergency measures allowing special accommodations for voters and election officials in the 13 counties most impacted by Hurricane Helene. https://t.co/CXOvF445TK
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) October 7, 2024
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