The countdown to the Nov. 8 elections in the United States starts Friday with the beginning of voting by mail in North Carolina, the first state to initiate the process. Starting this Friday, voters registered in the southeastern U.S. state of North Carolina can request their ballots from the state Board of Elections and, once received, they can fill them out and send them to the board of the county where they live. According to the Board of Elections, as of Sept. 8, 152,130 voters were registered as Hispanics, or 2.27 percent of North Carolina's electorate. According to a poll published Friday that includes seven states where surveys do not show a clear winner (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia), 48 percent of Latino voters in North Carolina say the "most important" thing the next president and Congress must tackle is immigration. Another element of the North Carolina elections is the state's voting law, passed in 2013, signed by Republican Pat McCrory and revoked last July 29 by a court of appeals with the argument that it was an attempt at racial discrimination.

Source: Fox News September 09, 2016 19:41 UTC