A history lesson on absentee ballot fraud in North Carolina from Observer.com as absentee ballot reform is considered by Republicans in the North Carolina legislature to require absentee voters provide their social security number of drivers license number.

For decades the Democratic organizations that ruled North Carolina
would ship thousands of absentee ballots to machine-controlled mountain
counties that would provide as many votes as were needed.

The 1920
governor’s race was almost certainly stolen that way. The
machine-backed candidate, Cameron Morrison, finished second when the
voting was completed on Election Day. But after 11 days of counting
absentee votes trickling in from the mountain counties, he was declared
winner of the Democratic nomination by 87 votes. That was at a time when
North Carolina was a one-party state and Democratic factions stole
elections from each other.

During the 1936 Democratic primary for
governor, the state Board of Elections, controlled by the Democratic
machine, sent out 108,250 absentee ballots in a runoff in which 480,000
votes were cast. Most were sent to mountain counties. A 1944 study found
that the statewide percentage of absentee ballots cast was 6.7 percent,
but in hard-fought mountain counties such as Clay it was as high as 26
percent.

Typically when absentee voting started, both parties
contacted certain voters to see if they wanted to vote absentee. One
label for these voters was “floating voters.” According to one mountain
Democrat, whoever obtained the majority of those voters usually won.

Old mountain pols say the tradition of using absentee ballots to help steal elections continued into modern times.