More than 1.5 million people cast votes from the 29 affected counties in North Carolina in 2020. That’s more than 1 out of every 4 voters (27.5%) in the state.

By GARY D. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More North Carolina residents turned out to cast ballots on the first day of early voting this year than in 2020, even as residents from the mountainous ...

North Carolina had record-breaking mail-in voting in 2020 after a new law made absentee ballots easier due to COVID-19. Many of those rules are gone in 2022.