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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN: FBI joins NC election fraud investigation. They've identified a "person of interest".
This is going to be a fast and easy case. Everything's on paper!
triron
(22,023 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)Squinch
(51,021 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Whenever there's a special election due to something big like this, the party/candidate under scrutiny always sees heavily depressed turnout.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)They know the magnifying glass will be on them and they can't afford to do anything shady.
Ford_Prefect
(7,921 posts)They believe they are doing God's work and are protected thereby. They believe they are justified in doing anything and everything to win.
Over the last 25 years, the North Carolina GOP was restructured by Art Pope to remove anyone with a sense of morality or the common good. They were replaced by right-wing religious zealots who would not question the orders of the central committee and who had a sincere longing to return to the Jim Crow era. This is not hype. They are just that kind of racist nut.
drray23
(7,637 posts)It's already hard to get dems to the polls during a normal election day. I fear that the GOP will rile up their base claiming the dems want to steal the election and get a record turnout. We Democrats will sit on our asses and not show up in numbers.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)And that obviously includes the one currently squatting in the people's house.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)BY NICOLE GOODKIND ON 12/6/18 AT 1:50 PM
President Donald Trump has long made accusations of voter fraud ...
Yet the president has remained silent about a North Carolina congressional race in which actual evidence of illegal ballot-harvesting by the Republican candidate has led the executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, Dallas Woodhouse, to support an election do-over ...
President Trump visited North Carolina before the election to campaign on behalf of Mark Harris ...
https://www.newsweek.com/north-carolina-voter-fraud-harris-trump-election-fraud-bladen-county-1247617
pecosbob
(7,544 posts)I want to see that the FBI is involved in the investigation in print.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)Otherwise I would've posted as LBN.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)in the election fraud investigation, and that the SBI is on the ground in Bladen and Robeson counties investigating as well ...
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/report-harris-campaign-owes-34-310-for-disputed-absentee-ballot-turnout-work/884960673
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)By Sean Sullivan December 6 at 6:55 PM
Kris Kobach, an ally of President Trump who served on a voter integrity panel, expressed worry Thursday that Republican fraud might have tainted a North Carolina congressional election, becoming one of the most prominent members of the GOP to publicly express alarm about the race ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-ally-who-served-on-voter-integrity-panel-expresses-concern-about-fraud-in-north-carolina/2018/12/06/98d13d3c-f974-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html?utm_term=.8b2a181f525b
pecosbob
(7,544 posts)erronis
(15,355 posts)diva77
(7,659 posts)struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)GAIL COLLINS
... Republicans have been warning us about the danger of voter fraud for ages ...
The fictional version of voter fraud involves sinister characters possibly illegal immigrants! showing up at the polls repeatedly, perhaps disguising their nefarious intent by wearing different hats or an occasional false mustache.
In many places, like California, the same person votes many times ... Millions and millions of people, said Donald Trump ...
... And what do you know? There really did seem to be a case of possible election-stealing in a congressional race in North Carolina ...
https://www.wral.com/trump-gets-it-all-wrong/18043132/
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)pecosbob
(7,544 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)There's no question at this point that another election will be held.
pecosbob
(7,544 posts)The offense(s) occurred in multiple counties and I've already read about local attempts to move some part of the investigation from Wake County to Bladen County. I have no doubt that there will be local interference.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)blm
(113,100 posts)Just FYI - she knows what we know here at DU
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)gilligan
(194 posts)Blame it on Hillary.
erronis
(15,355 posts)red dog 1
(27,866 posts)Republican candidate Mark Harris.
From Hawaii TV station KITV Channel 4 (ABC)
edbermac
(15,947 posts)rurallib
(62,451 posts)for several years.
Republicans must cheat to win.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)last night(?), I think,...and the same guy did the same thing in 2016, was caught.....and the incident was supposedly reported. I guess it's a cottage industry.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)His audacity is incredible, along with the fact he was still allowed to be involved in campaigns this cycle