Deadlines are fast approaching on Trump's mail-in ballot initiatives as election season begins

The useful part

Thursday asking the court to remove a lower court's stay on the administration's new postal ballot rules. North Carolina, one of the states suing the administration, sent out ballots on Friday. 'The cheating on mail-in ballots is legendary.' More than 46,000 North Carolina ballots have been sent out, though only to those who specifically requested them.

How it works

• Those shipments will continue until all requests for mail-in ballots made by October 20 are fulfilled.
• Jason Tyson, director of external affairs for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, told Blaze News that this was business as usual for the state.
• "Regardless of a temporary restraining order or any kind of action there, every election year we do share our envelopes — absentee ballot envelopes — with the U.S.
• "We did share our envelopes with the United States Postal Service about two or three weeks ago.
• Nothing that we've done just for this year." The NCSBE is currently controlled by Republicans.

What to take from it

For the Trump administration's new rules to have a chance at taking effect before t...

Example or evidence

• The first ballots of the midterm elections have left the building.

Details worth keeping

Nineteen other states will begin mailing ballots by September 19.