First 2024 Election Mail Ballots Scheduled to Go out This Week

Ballots will be mailed to North Carolina voters starting on Friday, Sept. 6.

Mail-in ballots sit in trays before being sorted at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office in San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2020. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

While there are about 60 days until Election Day on Nov. 5, the first mail-in ballots are slated to reach voters starting this week.

The first batch of ballots are typically sent out to military and overseas voters. Under federal law, that must happen at least 45 days before an election—which this year is Sept. 21.