N. Carolina elections board weighs re-doing marred election
Source: Associated Press
By EMERY P. DALESIO 2 hours ago
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The countrys last undecided congressional election was marred by falsified signatures, disappearing documents and blank ballots that were filled in by people hired by the Republican candidate, North Carolina elections officials said.
The state elections board could decide as early as Tuesday whether possibly criminal ballot fraud was unfortunate but tolerable, or whether to order a new election in the 9th congressional district.
A political operative hired by Republican Mark Harris led a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme in last years general election in rural Bladen and Robeson counties, which are part of the congressional district, state elections director Kim Strach said Monday.
The operative, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., was called to testify Monday, but his attorney refused to put him on the stand without legal protection against prosecution for events he described. The board refused.
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LOCK THEM UP............................
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)when we start letting "bad" elections stand, we are on a slippery slope downward.
so, so embarrassed for my state...
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)and those two / three men coming ashore and one getting shot and crumbling on that beach and dying and the other one grasping his stomach and struggling to get back up, the Marches for racial equality in the south and men and woman dying today, that people would sit in a house and get ten dollars for every illegal vote they cast, that wasn't theirs............................and not even be thinking about Normandy, Marches, or even today................., they had and have no principles............LOCK THEM UP, every last one of them ......................they knew it was wrong....................
KPN
(15,643 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)And there will be no repercussions.
onetexan
(13,038 posts)DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)Speaker Pelosi and the House!
onetexan
(13,038 posts)i wish there's an icon of Nancy's gavel
DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)I love how the pubicans accuse us of cheating when it's always THEM.
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)How much fucking PROOF does a person need??? NEW ELECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
brooklynite
(94,519 posts)DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)guess who can? The House can refuse to seat the repub and call for an election themselves!
Swallowtail
(16 posts)Why hasn't legal action been taken against Harris for this? Meddling in an election is a felony, I believe.