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(The Center Square) – Dates to go out are set for absentee-by-mail ballots in North Carolina, the State Board of Elections said late Friday. Overseas voters will be sent their respective requests from all 100 counties on Sept. 20. All others will be mailed Sept. 24. The ballots were scheduled to go out Sept. 6, sixty days before Election Day. The embattled state board lost litigation to send on the date scheduled. John F. Kennedy Jr., a presidential candidate, sued when the board refused to take his name off the ballot and eventually won at the state Supreme Court. The federal Sept. 21 deadlin…