North Carolina voters face new rules as mail-in ballots go out

WBUR

Published September 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM MDT

Absentee ballots are prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on September 17, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

North Carolina is preparing to start mailing absentee ballots amid confusion about some election procedures and rules.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Colin Campbell, Capitol bureau chief for WUNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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