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Possible voter Fraud in North Carolina

bver_hunter

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I served on Trump’s now-defunct fraud commission. Its members are ignoring alarming reports out of a House race.

An election may have been stolen in North Carolina. While evidence continues to be gathered, officials are investigating whether a paid Republican campaign contractor collected mail-in ballots from likely Democratic voters and never turned them in, possibly changing the result of the election. It’s a crisis of democracy: State election officials told a hearing Monday that North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District was subject to a “coordinated, unlawful, and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme” orchestrated by a GOP operative.

Here’s my question: Where is the voter fraud crowd? You know, the folks who cry “crime” when two people named John Smith vote in the same state? Their silence in the face of seemingly serious election fraud reveals their fundamental bad faith and hucksterism.

I served with many of the celebrities of the voter fraud pack when I joined President Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in 2017. I had hoped to be a voice for reason and data-driven reform. Instead of cooperation, the Republican leaders of the commission excluded me entirely, while posturing that they were on the trail of massive voter fraud — maybe even big enough to explain Trump’s 2.8-million vote loss in the national popular vote. Although the commission claimed to seek the truth about voter fraud, it fought bitterly to keep its work and results secret from its own members and from the public.

I fought back and won. When a court ordered the commission to share documents with me, Trump disbanded the commission. Last June, after an eight-month court battle, a federal judge ordered the commission to provide me with its working records. Even today, the case remains in the courts as the Department of Justice is still fighting to withhold some of those records.

Months after the midterms, an election-fraud investigation in North Carolina's 9th District is focusing on an operative who worked for the GOP candidate. (Jenny Starrs, Sarah Hashemi, Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post)
The documents that were released reveal the truth: Contrary to statements by the White House and Republican commission members such as vice chairman Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, the commission uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

That didn’t stop Kobach, though. He disputed my view that voter fraud is infinitesimally rare, claiming without evidence that I was “willfully blind” to fraud “in front of [my] nose,” and spread baseless but dire warnings of a vast national crisis. He and two other commission members — J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky — have asserted that the trifling number of prosecutions for actual voter misconduct represented only a fraction of the total.

The absence of evidence did nothing to quiet their alarm. Last summer, Kobach and his compatriots finally had the chance to argue their case for voter fraud before a federal court considering whether to invalidate a law requiring Kansans to present proof of citizenship to register to vote. Von Spakovsky was an “expert” witness. While Kobach claimed the few instances of fraud were “the tip of the iceberg,” the judge, a George W. Bush appointee, concluded that “there is no iceberg; only an icicle largely created by confusion and administrative error.” Despite this resounding defeat, Kobach continues to rely on the same discredited statistics, and voter fraud remains a top-line GOP concern.

Now that North Carolina is investigating what could be systematic election theft, you’d think people so committed to seeing fraud where it doesn’t exist would be sounding the alarm. What’s alleged in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District is not an occasional individual registering to vote when she is ineligible, but a sustained program to steal the votes of others. (An attorney for the Republican operative at the center of the investigation, Leslie McCrae Dowless, said Dowless “has not violated any state or federal campaign laws and current ongoing investigations will prove the same.”)

Yet these self-styled “guardians of election integrity” are largely silent. Kobach says he is “concerned,” but hasn’t called for any additional action; our former commission colleague von Spakovsky is taking the dubious position that the North Carolina experience vindicates his to-date unproved claims of widespread voter fraud. Despite Trump’s unfounded claims that “millions” of people voted illegally, costing him the 2016 popular vote, the president, too, has remained silent.

The news out of North Carolina is certainly distressing, but elements are also heartening. This incident verifies the response that I and others have long made to assertions of the voter-fraud vampire hunters: At the individual voter level, fraud is so rare that it effectively does not exist.

What appears to have happened in North Carolina is a different problem: an organized and willful effort to tamper with ballots. Not voter fraud, but election fraud. This scheme tested North Carolina’s election integrity system, including chain of custody protections and other checks and balances — and that system succeeded. After all, the discrepancy was discovered through the due diligence of election officials. Although the extent and effect of possible malfeasance in the 2018 elections has yet to be determined, voters in North Carolina should feel reassured that any attempt to rig a future election will be detected — and its perpetrators pursued to the fullest extent of the law.

No matter which candidate is eventually seated in the House from North Carolina, we have learned something else: We never, ever need to listen to the voter fraud charlatans again. They created a vivid voter fraud fantasy, conjuring up busloads of illegal immigrants or college students stealing seats from upright, patriotic Republicans and delivering them to undeserving Democrats across the nation. The truth is, the myth of voter fraud is nothing more than a ploy to justify laws that make it significantly harder for racial minorities and the poor, constituencies that often lean toward Democrats, to exercise their constitutional right to vote. The commitment to this fiction, rather than to the facts and the evidence, has left them blind to and uninterested in confronting the real fraud occurring right before our eyes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...arolina/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.71aa0cc1b190

GOP candidate tears up as son testifies in fraud hearing:

During a voter fraud hearing before the North Carolina State Board of Elections, the son of Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris brought his father to tears with his testimony.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...rs-nc-election-voter-fraud-hearing-es-vpx.cnn
 

bver_hunter

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Disputed North Carolina House race: Elections board orders new election:

North Carolina’s elections board has ordered a new election in the nation’s last undecided congressional race after reviewing evidence that it was tainted by absentee ballot fraud.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted 5-0 on Thursday to hold a new election in the 9th Congressional District. The board did not immediately set a schedule.

Following last November’s election, Republican Mark Harris had held a slim lead over Democrat Dan McCready in unofficial results from the district running from Charlotte through several counties to the east.

But the state refused to certify the win because of charges of absentee-ballot irregularities.

Harris said Thursday during the hearing that he thought a new election should be called – reversing months of urging state election officials to certify him as the winner.

“Through the testimony I’ve listened to over the past three days, I believe a new election should be called,” Harris said. “It’s become clear to me that the public’s confidence in the 9th District seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted.”


Harris and Democrat Dan McCready have been battling to represent the 9th Congressional District, three months after voters went to the polls Nov. 6.

In a case marked by twists and turns, Harris testified Thursday saying political operative Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. told him his team wouldn't handle absentee ballots, which is in violation of state law.

“I’ll never forget. He said it again and again. He said: We do not take the ballot,” Harris testified.

Harris’ son, John Harris, an assistant U.S. attorney in North Carolina, testified Wednesday that he warned his father about some questionable practices of Dowless.

Harris, who cried as his son testified, has said he didn’t know of any ballot problems.

The race is the last of the 2018 midterms to be decided. The district, which includes Charlotte, doesn’t have a representative yet in the new Congress.

What’s been going on?

The state board of elections has been holding hearings since Monday on the controversial case. Some witnesses working for Dowless testified that, among other things, they forged signatures.

Dowless refused to testify.

What are state election officials investigating?

The State Board of Elections delayed certifying election results last fall because it said it would launch an investigation into charges of voting irregularities.

Dowless, a political operative in the area, is accused of leading an effort that had workers encouraging voters to request an absentee ballot, then collecting those ballots and turning them in, which is illegal in North Carolina. The allegations led to charges of ballot tampering.

Why did the race get national attention?

The race landed in the national spotlight last November after Harris, who was leading by 905 votes, claimed the narrow win and McCready conceded. But it took a turn after charges of voter fraud surfaced.

The State Board of Elections didn’t certify the election.

The North Carolina race was one of several that raised concerns about voter fraud and voter suppression by Democrats and civil rights groups. Georgia election officials had come under scrutiny after Democrats charged that they tried to suppress the rights of black voters. Civil rights groups fought back a plan last fall to close polling sites in a predominately black county in Georgia.

Why do we care?

The outcome won’t change which party controls the House. Democrats have a majority in that chamber and will continue to do so this Congress.

But Democrats have made voting rights and elections a priority and are holding hearings focused on election concerns. A House elections subcommittee led by Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, is holding field hearings on elections, including one in North Carolina.

Fudge – citing North Carolina's disputed race – said she expects Republicans to support some election reforms..

“They see that it is not reflecting well on any of us that we would have an election in question," Fudge said in an interview with USA TODAY last month. "It doesn’t reflect well on this county that people have no confidence in our electoral system. Everybody knows something needs to be done on both sides."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...harges-dog-house-race-mark-harris/2938521002/

Trump has repeatedly called out for voter fraud by the "Democrats". The only one that has proven to be so is in a "REPUBLICAN" held seat. Now he is very hush, hush about it!!
 
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