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North Carolina begins mailing absentee ballots despite legal fight

From Die Zeit · () German

Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • North Carolina election officials have begun mailing absentee ballots for the November midterm elections.
  • A federal judge extended an injunction blocking a Trump administration decree that would make voting by mail more difficult.
  • The suspended rules would restrict ballot delivery to voters on state-provided lists and require states to submit ballot-envelope designs for postal approval.

North Carolina has started sending absentee ballots for the November midterm elections, even as a legal battle with the Trump administration over mail voting moves into another phase.

The state election board said on X that it had sent the first ballot materials. Other states are expected to follow in the coming days.

At the same time, a U.S. federal judge extended an injunction issued in August against the administration’s decree until November 3, the day of the midterm elections. The order keeps the proposed changes temporarily suspended.

The rules would make voting by mail more difficult in several ways, according to the report. Ballots would be delivered only to citizens listed on voter rolls supplied by the states. States would also have to submit absentee-ballot envelope designs to the postal service for approval in advance.

The legal dispute remains active as absentee voting begins in North Carolina.

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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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