On Actual Vote Fraud In N.C. Race, Trump Is Silent

[DonViejo]

Oliver Willis

December 2, 2018 5:36 am

Evidence is mounting that voter fraud may have benefitted a Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina.

Yet despite Trump’s obsession with voter fraud, he is suddenly silent now that his own party — and a candidate he personally endorsed — might be in trouble for it.

Mark Harris declared victory after vote tallies showed him leading Democrat Dan McCready by a narrow 905-vote margin in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. But the state board of elections has now twice declined to certify these results due to serious concerns about voting irregularities. And the Associated Press has officially revoked its projection that Harris had won, making the race once again “too close to call.”

The board of elections will be holding an evidentiary hearing “to assure that the election is determined without taint,” said Joshua Malcolm, vice chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement.

There is a lot to investigate — including shocking allegations that someone associated with the Harris campaign coordinated an effort to either throw away or fraudulently fill in absentee ballots cast by Democratic voters.

This isn’t the same kind of “voter fraud” that Trump and Republicans love to spread conspiracy theories about. They claim that in-person voter fraud is rampant — but in reality, it’s so rare that it’s practically nonexistent.

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[Zambero]

1. Do NOT certify. Re-vote the county in question

And prosecute the fraudsters to the full extent of the law. Wow golly, where's that crusading Kansas AG now that we "need" him?

[dalton99a]

2. It is election fraud, not voter fraud

[MattP]

3. How much of this happened in 2016 in Wisconsin, Pa, and Michigan

Not to mention Florida and North Carolina

[stopbush]

4. All part of the projection process.

Accuse your opponents of that which you know you yourself are guilty, thereby innoculating yourself against exposure of your crimes/whatever when the truth finally comes to light.

If past is prologue, tRump and the Rs will simply stop talking about voter fraud now that we have yet another example of R-based fraud. It doesn’t help them to be consistent by calling out fraud within their ranks. All that does is expose another phony RW “issue.”

Besides, tis the season for The War on Xmas. Voter fraud is SO November.

[Gothmog]

5. The GOP is the party of voter suppression and uses claim of voter fraud as a tool

The GOP is very good at absentee ballot fraud