All right, let's zoom into one of the states where election officials are working to secure the vote this year.

North Carolina will be one of the closest watch swing states on election night.

More than 2.5 million people have already voted early in the state as

officials expand options for displaced voters in the aftermath of Hurricane

Helene. Still, Donald Trump and his allies continue to lie about the

security of voting in

battlegrounds like North Carolina laying the groundwork to contest the

2024 election results. Laura Barone Lopez is back with this report.

After we get up here it lays completely different than what it used to.

It don't even run the same way.

In parts of Yancey County, along North Carolina's border with Tennessee,

the devastation from Hurricane Helene is catastrophic.

Part of me wants to see it, that way I can accept it as real, but then a part of me don't.

Mary Beth Tipton has lived here her whole life,

and for 12 years, she's been the county's

elections director.

All these are yeses.

Tipton staff prepared for all sorts of election day scenarios, but not for this.

I think we were all in shock there for a couple of days and as things start to settle down just a little

bit reality kicks in and it's like I've got a job to do.

On the day we met she was headed to the tiny town of Pensacola

to check whether a precinct at the local fire station would be usable. It became a hub for aid

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