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.