North Carolina Starts Mailing Fall Ballots as Trump Seeks to Curb Mail Voting

North Carolina began mailing its first absentee ballots early, sending the initial batch to about 46,000 voters who requested them as the state leads fall voting by mail. The move comes as the Trump administration pushes to restrict mail voting; a federal judge temporarily blocked a USPS rule that could have impeded mail voters, and the White House has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in, with more ballots to be mailed as requests continue to come in.