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Election fraud in North Carolina

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Larry

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1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said:
 

We were cool with the election fraud but looking at votes early is where we draw the line.

 

The other fraud could be blamed on a disposable employee. This one involves the election office itself, and I assume party officials. Time to call for a new election (which we're going to have to have, anyway), and hope that everybody stops digging into this one. 

 

Oh, and we propose that the new election be run by the state election officials, who are 100% GOP. For fairness. 

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Larry

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17 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

GOP gonna GOP

 

Dang.  Sure thought I posted this yesterday.  

 

Yeah, looking at things, it looks like this might actually be a legit point.  (Was there enough fraud to swing the election?)  

 

From the 538 article in the OP:  

 

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If it did, the big question is whether fraud actually swung this incredibly close election. In Bladen County, where the evidence suggests that too many absentee-by-mail ballots were cast, only 684 absentee-by-mail ballots were accepted; they went for Harris 420-258.2 If fraudsters did indeed collect absentee-by-mail ballots in Bladen County in order to mark them off for Harris, it didn’t produce enough illegal votes to cancel out his 905-vote margin districtwide. But in Robeson County, 1,180 absentee-by-mail ballots that were requested were never returned. If some of those ballots were destroyed, that is a big enough number that McCready could theoretically have gained 906 votes — although it’s still unlikely. Plenty of absentee-by-mail ballots never get returned for one reason or another (lost in the mail, people get too busy, etc.), even in a normal election. But with 1,364 absentee-by-mail ballots cast between the two counties (679 for Harris), and 1,675 absentee-by-mail ballots requested and not returned, it may be impossible to conclude whether voter fraud across both counties changed the election outcome.

 

 

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At the time, there was only an acting U.S. attorney in office. Later in 2017, Trump’s appointee arrived, but took no action to prosecute the matter. Instead, he assigned his staff to focus on a different priority — prosecuting a handful of non-citizens who had allegedly voted.

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But court filings reviewed by AP show several of the cases built by Higdon’s office were against longtime legal permanent residents or those who had been granted citizenship only to have authorities later determine they had been untruthful on their applications. At least four have pleaded guilty, with the only sentence meted out so far going against an Italian man who has lived legally in the United States since 1985. The judge in the case gave him a $200 fine and no prison time.

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After federal prosecutors took no action, documents show the elections board referred the case to state prosecutors in January 2018. No charges were filed before the November general election, which was marred by voting irregularities involving absentee ballots cast in Bladen and two neighboring counties. Authorities say Dowless is the subject of an investigation into those irregularities.

Everyone was kicking the can down the road. I'd think an US attorney looking for vote fraud would be champing at the bit for this but then I remembered he'd be investigating some on his side.

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