DURHAM, N.C. — Editor's note: The video in this story is from Oct. 13, 2020, about tracking your absentee ballot once it's been sent.
Time was dwindling for thousands of North Carolina voters to fix absentee voting errors as elections officials hustled out an updated process for handling mail-in ballot problems two weeks before Election Day. Court battles halted processing of ballots mailed back with deficiencies from Oct. 4 until the state issued new guidance Monday.
State and federal judges froze key parts of the process amid lawsuits over what to do with ballots that lacked a witness signature and other information.
After the new rules were announced, some counties said they had all but cleared the backlog, but voters elsewhere said they hadn’t yet been contacted.