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NC Elections offices swamped with 2020 records requests

PRE News & Ideas | By Rusty Jacobs, WUNC
Published September 21, 2022 at 7:54 AM EDT
A sample ballot is shown using the Dominion Voting system, the machines that have been under attack by former President Trump following the 2020 elections.
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A sample ballot is shown using the Dominion Voting system, the machines that have been under attack by former President Trump following the 2020 elections.

Absentee-by-mail ballots in North Carolina are already being returned for the 2022 midterm elections. But with just seven weeks to go before Election Day on November 8th, state and local elections administrators must contend with an onslaught of records requests from a race that was certified almost two years ago. WUNC's Rusty Jacobs reports.
Rusty Jacobs, WUNC
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