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Seven county boards of elections are meeting today to consider a total of at least 3,200 additional absentee by-mail ballots. Approved ballots will be added to the unofficial results on the State Board of Elections website after the meetings.
Nine county boards of elections are meeting today to consider a total of at least 4,300 additional absentee by-mail ballots, and approved ballots will be added to the unofficial results on the State Board of Elections website after the meetings.
Under state law, elections officials must release the number of provisional ballots cast in each county by noon two days after the election.
N.C. elections officials wish to remind Election Day voters that it may take a few weeks before their voter history is updated to reflect their vote.
The State Board extended voting at six polling sites.
After the November 3 general election, the State Board of Elections will randomly select precincts, early voting sites and by-mail ballots to be counted by hand in each county.
The State Board of Elections’ executive director and the state board chair will be available at 2:30 p.m. today for a media briefing.
As with any election, county boards of elections across North Carolina have begun the 10-day post-election process of counting the remaining ballots and conducting audits to verify the results.
The State Board of Elections will hold a remote meeting beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to extend voting at four precincts after each polling site opened late. North Carolina has 2,660 Election Day polling places.