by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter:

The vast majority of those most affected will be Republican and independent voters, and now a second hurricane is bearing down on conservative counties in Florida, expected to make landfall Wednesday.

Elections officials in North Carolina are now openly warning that voting in some parts of this key battleground state might be impacted due to Hurricane Helene’s devastation. And the impact, according to the numbers, is going to be strongest in overwhelmingly Republican counties where voters are likely going to struggle to get ballots mailed in on time due to their lives being upended by the hurricane.

The Epoch Times reports that during Helene, critical infrastructure in large swaths of western North Carolina and especially parts of the Appalachian Mountain areas were damaged or totally wiped out.