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🧵ICYMI: In a loss for voters, a judge ruled North Carolina's restrictive absentee ballot rules will remain in place for the midterms. This comes as over 30k absentee ballot votes have been cast, some of which have already been rejected because of the state’s new requirements. Here's what it means👇

(2/6) HOW WE GOT HERE: Election workers and voters were left scrambling when the GOP-led North Carolina State Board of Elections changed the rules for how ballots would be cast — the morning the state began sending absentee ballots out. demdock.com/4z1M9gQ

(3/6) REJECTED PLEAS: U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder determined Monday that changing election rules after absentee and early voting had already begun would violate a longstanding Supreme Court principle that discourages last-minute changes to election administration.

(4/6) WHAT THIS MEANS: Tens of thousands of North Carolina midterm ballots could legally be rejected over minor technical issues. The biggest risk for error? Voters now must seal their ballot inside an inner envelope before putting it into another outer envelope. demdock.com/4i8foHx

(6/6) Read more on what this ruling means for voters👇 demdock.com/4hXo0SH

NC Doesn’t give voters a chance to “Cure” their ballot?

I was going to ask that question.