What to know about early voting in Georgia and North Carolina

Two critical battleground states – Georgia and North Carolina – are kicking off early in-person voting this week.

Two critical battleground states – Georgia and North Carolina – are kicking off early in-person voting this week. Between a flurry of legislative changes and the fallout from Hurricane Helene, the experience could look different for many voters heading to the polls in the coming weeks. In Georgia, voters can head to the ballot box beginning on Tuesday and in North Carolina, early in-person voting begins on Thursday. Here are a handful of things to know about how voting and elections will work in two key swing states. Fewer drop boxes but more ways to vote early New state laws after 2020 that tightened rules for absentee ballots and cracked down on the availability of drop boxes may make the option less appealing than early in-person voting, election experts said. While many drop boxes were available 24/7 in 2020, this year there will be fewer of them, and they will be in election offices or early vote locations with hours that tend to mimic normal business hours.