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    Voting Season Begins: North Carolina Mails Out First Ballots

    by Pam Fessler Sep 04, 2020 3 minutes

    The 2020 general election has begun with North Carolina becoming the first state to start mailing out absentee ballots on Friday, two months before Election Day.

    Other states will begin doing the same over the next few weeks in an election that's expected to break all records in the number of ballots cast early and by mail. Minnesota will be the first state to offer early in-person voting starting September 18 with many states following not long after that.

    Most analysts believe that at least half the electorate will vote by mail or

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