Republicans are playing catch-up with Democrats to boost the number of their voters requesting mail-in ballots in key states, an effort that is complicated by President Trump’s criticism of all-mail voting. In North Carolina, Democratic registered voters requested 53% of the absentee ballots compared with 15% from Republican voters, according to an Aug. 19 analysis by Michael Bitzer, a professor of politics and history at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C....

Source: Wall Street Journal August 22, 2020 12:56 UTC