WaPo: “Hurricane Helene’s destructive path across western North Carolina threatens to upend the fall election in the key battleground, with halted mail service disrupting absentee voting, thousands of voters cut off from polling locations and election administrators scrambling to adjust.
Even as emergency response teams continued their search for survivors of the devastating storm and airlifted food and water into remote communities, state and local election teams began the difficult task this week of assessing damage to election infrastructure. State election officials said Tuesday that no voting equipment or paper ballot stockpiles had been destroyed, but multiple polling locations — no one knows how many — were flooded and are unlikely to be usable on Election Day.”