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brooklynite

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Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:51 PM Dec 2018

Wake County district attorney investigating Bladen County ballots amid fraud claims (NC-9)

Source: Charlotte Observer

Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman confirmed Monday that her office has had an active criminal investigation into “potential voting irregularities” in Bladen County since early this year.

The investigation began with allegations about 2016 voting but now incorporates the allegations raised in the 2018 primary and general election.

“There has been an open investigation throughout this period,” Freeman, a Democrat who won re-election to a second term this year, said in a phone interview.

In the 9th Congressional District, Republican Mark Harris has defeated Democrat Dan McCready in unofficial results, but the state elections board has twice declined to certify the results over “claims of numerous irregularities and concerted fraudulent activities related to absentee mail ballots,” according to Joshua Malcolm, who has since been named the board’s chairman.

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article222571645.html#storylink=cpy

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article222571645.html

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Wake County district attorney investigating Bladen County ballots amid fraud claims (NC-9) (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2018 OP
Good to hear...election fraud is becoming more and more prevalent. pecosbob Dec 2018 #1
By GOP weissmam Dec 2018 #2
Yes...I'm sorry I omitted that. pecosbob Dec 2018 #3
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