absentee ballot

States often rely on that signature over time for other purposes, such as validating absentee ballot requests.

GOP officials in Mississippi have appealed to the high court to save a state law that allows for the counting of absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days later.

The requirement that North Carolinians present photo ID at the precinct when they vote in person or provide identification numbers to request an absentee ballot is one such election integrity protection.

Around 5,500 contested votes are absentee ballots from voters overseas registered to vote in four Democrat-leaning counties, who Griffin alleged failed to include photo identification with their absentee ballots.

She said that expanding the photo ID rule retroactively to absentee ballots from every county would balloon the number of North Carolinians affected by Griffin's protest to more than 30,000.