North Carolina Begins Mailing Midterm Ballots Amid Legal Challenges

North Carolina becomes first state to send out mail-in ballots for US midterms

State decides to proceed hours after Trump administration asks supreme court to let it carry out proposed crackdown North Carolina became the first state to start sending out mail-in ballots for November’s US midterm elections on Friday, as Donald Trump’s administration fights to impose sweeping restrictions on the practice before millions of Americans cast their votes. The state’s decision to proceed – hours after Trump’s officials asked the supreme court to let the administration press ahea...

By Joseph Gedeon in Washington