The March primary is over. But the election isn't.

Right now, 100 county boards across North Carolina are in the canvass period, and most people have never heard of it. In this episode of Built by Us, host Kai McNeil sits down with Democracy NC's senior policy analyst Brian Kennedy and Professor Michael Bitzer, director of the NC Center for Politics, to break down what canvassing actually is, what the Union of Concerned Scientists found about racial disparities in ballot rejections, and how racial gerrymandering already shaped the 2026 primary landscape before most people showed up to vote.

Two voices. Two lenses. One unmistakable truth: every vote has to be fought for.

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