Although the calendar still shows several weeks until Tuesday, November 3, there’s one thing we all need to be very clear about in the United States: the 2026 elections have already begun. North Carolina started sending out absentee ballots on September 4; Alabama began its process on the 9th; in Wisconsin, election officials were supposed to begin distributing them no later than September 17, and in Pennsylvania, some counties are already sending ballots by mail. And in the coming weeks, many o