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Ballot Stuck In The Mail? Here Are Your Options For Voting In North Carolina

Of the mail-in ballots counted in North Carolina, 27.4% did not vote in the 2016 elections.
Of the mail-in ballots counted in North Carolina, 27.4% did not vote in the 2016 elections.

While North Carolinians requested nearly 1.4 million absentee ballots, fewer than half of those have been returned and accepted. Government and watchdog experts continue to express public confidence that mail-in votes are safe and will be counted if filled out properly. 

Host Frank Stasio and Report for America Corps reporter Jordan Wilkie discuss North Carolinians' options for voting this year.

But long delay times are expected as postal workers deal with a record influx. If your ballot is stuck on the return trip to your local board of elections, you may be wondering about ways to ensure your vote is tallied. Host Frank Stasio checks in with reporter Jordan Wilkieabout new guidance and suggestions for North Carolinian voters in 2020. Wilkie is a Report for America Corps member working for Carolina Public Press and the NC Watchdog Reporting Network

- WUNC voter guide

 - FAQs: Voting by mail

- Track your mail-in ballot 

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
Grant Holub-Moorman is a producer for The State of Things, WUNC's daily, live talk show that features the issues, personalities and places of North Carolina.