On the last Thursday of September, as Hurricane Helene was setting out on a path of destruction from Florida to the southern Appalachians, Kim and Rod Ashby stopped at the home they were building in Elk Park,

More than a week after storms from Hurricane Helene ripped through the Southeast, hard-hit Western North Carolina is still recovering.

With so many voters displaced after Helene in the swing state of North Carolina, election officials are receiving guidance from a state that has done this many times before— Louisiana. Election Commissioner Sherri Wharton-Hadskey said Louisiana has had to implement more emergency voting procedures than any other state following disastrous storms.