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🧵 Early voting has begun in North Carolina, where voter suppression has taken hold in new ways this fall. Polling sites have been cut. Voting hours have been slashed. And the state continues to share voter data with the Trump administration. Here’s what to know 👇

⚠️ THREATS TO THE VOTE: The GOP-dominated state election board ignored massive voter opposition, especially from students, and decided to cut polling sites and voting hours. In doing so, the board denied students at the nation’s largest historically Black university a midterm polling location.

📬 MAIL VOTING ATTACKS: The same day ballots were mailed to voters, the state board implemented more restrictions, including new rules for sealing ballots. The rules are currently being litigated in federal court, with voting rights groups condemning them as “arbitrary disenfranchisement.”

One of the rules requires voters to seal and sign an inner envelope, as well as the outside envelope. Some local election officials say up to 3% of ballots could be rejected as a result of the new envelope sealing requirement.

🚨 FEDERAL INTERFERENCE: As part of a settlement with the DOJ, the state flooded mailboxes with confusing letters asking voters to update their registration information. Some got at least three, each with different — sometimes conflicting — instructions on what to do: demdock.com/47VWBdQ