When you attend your local Board of Elections meetings when they are opening and scanning absentee ballots, submit a Public Records Request (form Letter below) requesting copies of the absentee ballot containers. You need to fill in YOUR information. Suggest you hand deliver it. Ask for a receipt of delivery. (It's not going to make you popular with the BOE!)
[Your Name]
[Street Address]
[City, ST ZIP Code]
[Date]
[Name of Custodian of Records]
[Title]
[Company Name]
[Street Address]
[City, ST ZIP Code]
Director County Board of Elections County Board of Elections Director:
Pursuant to Chapter 132 of the North Carolina General Statutes, I respectfully request the opportunity to inspect and obtain copies of the following public records:
1. The total listing of all names of all absentee by-mail ballots returned, board approved and scanned, including but not limited to the in-person return logs from One Stop locations and the main office as they become available.
2. Copies of the container-envelopes with redactions according to statute.