Absentee ballot meetings in western North Carolina counties can be rescheduled

On Monday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections held an emergency meeting to adopt a resolution allowing officials in counties slammed by Helene to reschedule statutorily required absentee ballot meetings.

Under state law, county elections boards are to start holding these weekly meetings on the fifth Tuesday ahead of Election Day, which falls this week. But Helene's path of death and destruction in western North Carolina has made that impossible.

As of Monday afternoon, state elections officials had been in touch with 14 of 22 western North Carolina counties hit by Helene.

"Many are without water, power, of course Internet, and some have access issues with damaged roads or roads that are blocked," said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections.



https://www.wfae.org/2024-09-30/absentee-ballot-meetings-western-north-carolina-helene