NC online ballot program in the works before pandemic excuse

AP Dillon from the North State Journal has a bombshell investigative report about how the NC State Elections Director was working on creation of an online absentee ballot portal long before COVID gave her the justification to launch one. The pandemic was used as the reason to implement the system – despite security flaws. Plus, another suicide in the Mecklenburg jail and an update on the long-running NC school funding lawsuit.