Rule changes in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan give voters more leeway in getting their mail ballots back in time to count. That could mean more votes will count that would've otherwise been disqualified.
Trump won North Carolina by a wider margin, almost 200,000 votes, but that margin is still dwarfed by the more than 970,000 mail ballot requestsRepublicans in many states have signaled an interest in pursuing legal challenges to nullify the new guidelines.
North Carolina state Sen. Phil Berger, the leading Republican in the North Carolina state Senate, releasedHis statement seemed to say that allowing ballots that have been postmarked by Election Day to count would allow for fraud, as ballots would conveniently be"found" in the days after the election.in previous elections, when results have shifted in favor of Democrats as mail ballots continued to be counted.
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