As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in North Carolina.

Early voting begins in the battleground state of North Carolina on Thursday as former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris race to Election Day. Follow for live news updates.

Bell said 65 percent of North Carolina voters cast their ballot during in-person early voting in 2020. Early voting will be available until Nov. 2, the Saturday before Election Day. Voters can request an absentee ballot until Tuesday, Oct. 29. The deadline to return an absentee ballot is 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

State officials are tracking impassable roads and contacting voters who requested absentee ballots to try to get them delivered.

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots on the first day of early in-person voting in one of the mountainous counties badly affected by Hurricane Helene, in Marion, North Carolina, U.S. October 17, 2024. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

During his first of two campaign stops in North Carolina, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz claimed that his mother has to depend on her social security checks each month to survive.

Early voting is underway in the key battleground state of North Carolina. NBC News Correspondent Antonia Hylton joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss how state officials are helping administer the election in the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Helene.

North Carolinians set a record on the first day of early voting in the state, casting 353,166 ballots on Thursday and becoming the second battleground state this week to top its previous mark.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Turnout for early in-person voting started strong Thursday in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but apparently did not dampen a fierce desire to participate in elections.