California election officials assure voters their ballot is safe in drop boxes and the mail, yet some voters are hand delivering anyway.

Voters in Northampton County — widely seen as a bellwether for the 2020 election — will use machines that in 2019 caused voting errors and miscounts.

There’s no clear-cut reason for the increase, but experts have their theories: voter enthusiasm, ballot and personal safety concerns, and a sense of relief.

For thousands of Californians who have lost their homes to wildfires this year, mail-in voting poses a unique set of challenges.

Becerra escalated a ballot box battle with the California GOP, asking the courts to force the GOP to hand over subpoenaed information.

Just over 2 million North Carolinians have voted early for the election as of Tuesday, though a small fraction of ballots cast will need to be fixed, according to the state Board of Elections.

Many elections workers, who tend to be retirees, are sitting out Nov. 3, so clerks are turning to younger recruits for an Election Day that could be like few others. Among the newbies’ questions: What to do if people “walk in with AR-15s?”

Bladen County in eastern North Carolina drew national attention two years ago for an election fraud scandal involving mail-in ballots. It led to the results of the 9th District congressional race being thrown out and a new election. So, with mail-in voting happening in larger numbers this year because of the pandemic, WFAE sent a reporter to see how voting was going in Bladen County.

The high court’s refusal to intervene in the case, brought by the state Republican Party and GOP leaders, means ballots in Pennsylvania will be accepted through Nov. 6.