N.C. election board's warnings to local and federal prosecutors about alleged election fraud drew li
Source: Washington Post
N.C. election board’s warnings to local and federal prosecutors about alleged election fraud drew little action
Nearly two years before election fraud allegations roiled a North Carolina congressional race this fall, state election officials warned prosecutors they had evidence of efforts to manipulate the absentee ballot vote in rural Bladen County and sought their action, new documents and interviews show.
But frustrated state officials said their alerts about what occurred in the 2016 election — including a formal referral letter sent to the U.S. attorney in January 2017 and later meetings with state and federal investigators — yielded little movement by the local district attorney or the U.S. attorney’s office to probe the allegations.
There were “several calls and in-person meetings between our investigators and federal agents working with the U.S. attorney’s office,” State Board of Election’s general counsel Josh Lawson told The Washington Post on Friday. But there was “no indication of active work by them.”
The revelation that state election officials had raised multiple alarms with law enforcement agencies raises fresh questions about whether prosecutors adequately scrutinized the allegations — and whether they could have headed off similar activities that upended this year’s race in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District between Republican Mark Harris and Democrat Dan McCready.
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