North Carolina's Black Voters Are Seeing Their Mail-in Vote Rejected Again

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North Carolina's Black Voters Are Seeing Their Mail-in Vote Rejected Again

A new study of 2018 mail-in absentee ballot data found ballots mailed-in by Black voters were rejected at more than twice the rate of any other race.

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