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Election North Carolina Early Voting
There is only one early voting site in Henderson County. Jeffrey Collins/AP

Trump Spent Years Vilifying Early Voting. Now, Republicans Are Willing to Sue for More.

Tensions over early voting access are boiling over in North Carolina, where the GOP’s messaging whiplash is playing out in the starkest terms.

There is only one early voting site in Henderson County. Jeffrey Collins/AP

NORTH CAROLINA — Just inside the doors of the Henderson County Republican Party headquarters, two men were arguing about early voting in front of life-size cutouts of Donald Trump and his wife, Melania.

Keith Coin, a Republican voter, had just learned that his conservative, densely populated North Carolina county had only one early voting site compared to the 10 sites in the neighboring Democratic stronghold of Buncombe County. He was furious.

Grosvenor Fish, who was staffing the county GOP’s strip-mall office that day, was stunned at Coin’s outrage.