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NC Elections Officials Expected To Finish Vote Count Today

File photo of workers at the Durham County Board of Elections processing absentee ballot requests while maintaining safety during the coronavirus pandemic in Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020.
File photo of workers at the Durham County Board of Elections processing absentee ballot requests while maintaining safety during the coronavirus pandemic in Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020.
File photo of workers at the Durham County Board of Elections processing absentee ballot requests while maintaining safety during the coronavirus pandemic in Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020.
Credit File, Ben McKeown / For WUNC
File photo of workers at the Durham County Board of Elections processing absentee ballot requests while maintaining safety during the coronavirus pandemic in Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020.

Counties across the state are finishing up the ballot count today and will hold canvas meetings to tally final results from the 2020 General Election.

North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell joined WUNC Reporter Rusty Jacobs to explain the process.WUNC Reporter Rusty Jacobs discusses the remaining ballot count process with North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell.

 

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Rusty Jacobs is a politics reporter for WUNC. Rusty previously worked at WUNC as a reporter and substitute host from 2001 until 2007 and now returns after a nine-year absence during which he went to law school at Carolina and then worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Wake County.