North Carolina County Official Indicted For Rigging The 2016 Election For Donald Trump

[RandySF]

A former elections worker in North Carolina was indicted by a grand jury on Monday for purposefully changing ballot results during the March 2016 primary election.

Richard Robert Rawling, 59, of Cary, was charged with felony counts of failing his duties and obstruction of justice after allegedly skewing the vote tallies to help elect President Trump and other conservative candidates.

Rawling allegedly ordered subordinates to run provisional ballots through tabulators more than the correct number of times, and then made manual changes so that the results of the provisional canvass would match the tally of total ballots.

Elections board officials found the smoking gun during an audit of primary results in April.

According to the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, Rawling’s actions were a desperate attempt to hide his tampering with results. Rawling resigned less than a month after the primary results were tallied.


http://www.rawprogressive.com/2017/08/22/breaking-north-carolina-county-official-indicted-rigging-2016-election-donald-trump/?utm_content=buffer8edbc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[dalton99a]

1. Only an isolated incident, I'm sure

[busterbrown]

19. Never have to use the Sarcasm thing"

when referring to Republican Criminals.. Its always true.... I laughed immediately when I read your reply.

[Alice11111]

28. !!!

[Chasstev365]

2. Another pardon on the way!

[RestoreAmerica2020]

51. My thoughts exactly ...as well. nazikkk guy who who was on tv crying after he was arrested

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for charlottesville rally incidences, not sure of all charges, but he was they guy that was spouting off to a reporter about the workings, beliefs of these groups.

Why am I not shocked regarding the manipulation of votes...we need to go back to paper ballots--archaic sure, yet may only guarantee that your vote is counted.

[negoldie]

61. Iraq had

paper ballots and purple thumbs. WTF is wrong with that?

[shanny]

64. Nope. State charge.

not that dRump wouldn't want to

[Glassunion]

3. No worries. I'm sure he'll get a pardon too.

[Botany]

4. So Trump had help in rigging the election in both the Primary and the General election too?

But really whay about Hillary's emails?

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Let it be the first of many.

[underpants]

6. All the people caught voting twice were Trump supporters

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all the people,caught with more than one registration were also Republicans.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Any reason

to think this didn't play out in a similar manner in other closely contested states?

It's a big thing in small cities and rural areas when billionaires come to town.

[Plucketeer]

65. It happened in ANY locale

where the spores of racism had lain dormant for decades (or less) - waiting for just the right climate in which to sprout.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

15. I guess us Dems should start bitching about all the voter fraud going on by white Repugs.

[LisaL]

16. Is that surprising?

"Despite a rash of recent polls showing the presidential race narrowing significantly, Republican nominee Donald Trump is not letting up with his message that the election might be rigged, telling supporters not to trust mail-in ballots and vote again if they are suspicious of their vote not being counted."
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article111519972.html

[Alice11111]

32. Repub Ironies...like the ones pissed off at Dems because

they got to keep their healthcare coverage.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

49. It turns out Jared Kushner and Sean Spicer are also registered to vote in two states

link

[fierywoman]

7. Everything he has accused The Other of doing,in reality, he or his cohorts have done themselves.

EVERYTHING!

[Ccarmona]

26. It's Called Projection

And the Trump and his campaign were masters at it.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Electioneering

should be professional non-partisan

What we have is what? Varies from place to place? One party is supposed to keep an eye on the other? But it's a cliquish volunteer occupation.

[L. Coyote]

9. Republicans need to train their election riggers better or more will get caught.

Wouldn't want people to realize what happened in Fall 2016.

[Alice11111]

33. Seriously, that's what their unabashed reaction is to this

[world wide wally]

10. Throw away the key!

[Hulk]

12. On a mission from gawd.

I just have to wonder how religiously motivated these criminal minds are. "It's all for the 'greater good'."

[annabanana]

34. Probably more than is generally acknowledged. We know Pence is in that group..

I fear that they have convinced Trump that he is, indeed, anointed.

[TomVilmer]

13. Could have been a really good story, but...

... Rawling is accused of having mishandled and altered ballot totals and is charged with obstruction of justice, a felony. However, based on the statement released by the state Board of Elections, he is accused of what essentially appears to be improperly avoiding an administrative headache for himself rather than attempting to “rig” a national election. ...
http://www.snopes.com/north-carolina-elections-worker-trump/

[LenaBaby61]

35. Could have been a really good story, but...

But my ass & Screw Snopes.

He STILL possibly did something WRONG & He's should suffer for this. And, WHO makes up this Board of Elections? But then again, even if he did something wrong, tRumputin will only pardon him if he can or he'll flat out get away with it.

I keep seeing people saying "I can't wait until the 2018 elections, because we're gonna vote them (GOP) out." Sure, riiiiiiiiight. As long as you have thuglicans controlling almost every aspect of the voting in this country from collecting to counting votes all across this country, I don't see HOW Dems vote the bums out, especially if "they" don't want them out. And, as long as the GOP can voter-suppress/gerrymander, they'll keep a leg up on Dems in these elections.

Lastly, I see NOTHING from this purposely understaffed Dept. Homeland Security and surely nothing from tRump whose putin's puppet signaling that they'll put anything in place to STOP the ruskies from interfering into our next election (2018).

[TomVilmer]

44. Reality is so boring...

You should really try to learn something about the political system - that could make it much easier to separate BS stories from the real weird Trump stuff.

WHO is Board of Elections? It is a bipartisan group partly appointed by the Democrats and Republicans... That is why US elections normally can be trusted. The counting is OK, but the political system is totally fucked up.

[LenaBaby61]

47. You should really try to learn something about the political system.

Excuse you, but I know enough about the political system to know that I don't trust thuglicans as far as I can throw a Mack Truck to collect and tally votes fairly. They control and run almost EVERY facet of voting across this country, and they aim to KEEP that advantage by any means necessary so they can STAY in power. And with this LAST GE, you had the ruskies interfering and thuglicans voter-suppressing and gerrymandering the hell out of Democrats. FACT.

You keep on trusting in and believing that this current crop of thuglicans count Dem votes fairly though

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

60. Well then!

[TheFrenchRazor]

53. this. nt

[WinkyDink]

14. LOCK HIM UP!

[TheFrenchRazor]

17. nothing to see here folks...seriously, we will never have another legit election in this country. nt

[kerry-is-my-prez]

20. Yep.

[defacto7]

58. You could be right.

After their rigging failure in Ohio in 2012, they won't allow the same mistake again. We have to get them in their weakest spot. Where that is I don’t know.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

18. If we had a fair playing field, (without gerrymandering, suppression), the Dems would have won

every Presidential race since Reagan, I'll bet. Wish someone would do a study. The Dem. candidate would have won Florida every time if it weren't for the millions of felons who have a life-time ban on voting and for the crazy gerrymandering going on.

[kairos12]

21. Tip of the Drumptberg.

[no_hypocrisy]

22. To paraphrase Josef Stalin, it doesn't matter how many votes are cast;

it's who counts those votes.

[LenaBaby61]

48. "To paraphrase Josef Stalin, it doesn't matter how many votes are cast;

it's who counts those votes."

Well, according to SOMEONE in this thread, the votes ARE being counted fairly and squarely by thuglicans

[Initech]

23. How many did he bus in for that?

[AllyCat]

24. KGOP cannot win on merit

[Kablooie]

25. What an utter fool. Changing the count of one district couldn't affect the national result.

But it could land him in prison.

A typical Trump idiot.

Of course Trump may pardon him.

[Sneederbunk]

27. Lock him up.

[bearsfootball516]

30. Eh, it could have

Look at Florida in 2000. One state decided the whole election, and it came down to literally a handful of votes. One district really can change everything if the election is close enough.

[Alice11111]

36. with the help of SCOTUS

[dae]

29. It's their motto, "Do unto others before they do to you."

[red dog 1]

31. Is Raw Progressive a legitimate news site?

There are no links, no reporters, no "Who We Are", no "About Us" sections?
Some of the articles list a source, but many (including this one) do not list ANY source.
Who runs this site?

Raw Progressive's title for this story, and the title of this thread is:
"North Carolina Official Indicted For Rigging The Election For Trump"

According to an Associated Press article dated August 21, 2017
EX-ELECTION WORKER CHARGED WITH ALTERING 2016 PRIMARY VOTES

"The Durham County elections board said in a report last fall that more than 1,000 provisional ballots were thought to have been mishandled during the March 2016 primary election,
but the miscount didn't affect the primary's outcome.
State elections board officials said Monday Rawling's actions didn't affect any races and there was no evidence he altered ballot counts to support a particular political party or candidate."
http://www.wcti.com/news/state/election-worker-charged-with-altering-2016-primary-votes/607462655

[bearsfootball516]

37. Mediabiasfactcheck doesn't hold it in very high regard

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/raw-progressive/

[red dog 1]

43. Thanks for posting that link

Although it was so dark, I had to use a magnifier to read what they said about Raw Progressive.

[Alice11111]

38. Most Repubs will believe that BS without logically thinking

it through, that it makes no sense.

[red dog 1]

39. "Most Repubs will believe that BS"?

What BS are you referring to?

[Alice11111]

42. The post that I responded to...

"The Durham County elections board said in a report last fall that more than 1,000 provisional ballots were thought to have been mishandled during the March 2016 primary election,
but the miscount didn't affect the primary's outcome.
State elections board officials said Monday Rawling's actions didn't affect any races and there was no evidence he altered ballot counts to support a particular political party or candidate."

I thought after I posted my reply...hmmm...that might be confusing. I guess it was.

[red dog 1]

45. What's really BS is the Raw Progressive headline

"North Carolina County Official Indicted For Rigging The 2016 Election For Donald Trump"

As you've noted from the AP story:
"There was no evidence he altered ballot counts to support a particular party or candidate."

[Alice11111]

46. Yes. The stunning line about no evidence followed the

factual statement that he did it, two different ways, which was evidence in itself.

[Initech]

40. They can't win if they can't lie, cheat, or steal.

[Captain Stern]

41. More info on this from Snopes

http://www.snopes.com/north-carolina-elections-worker-trump/

[mcar]

50. And there is the real fraud

How many others did this?

[Hoyt]

52. First this was during primaries. Second, it proves all those calling for return to paper ballots

are wrong that it will prevent vote tampering more than additional safeguards on electronic voting.

[sinkingfeeling]

54. Now that is election fraud!

[moonscape]

55. Here's what Snopes has to say:

http://www.snopes.com/north-carolina-elections-worker-trump/

[Qutzupalotl]

56. There is more sober coverage of this elsewhere.

If you google the guy's name, you can find MSM articles about this. They say there is no evidence that he altered totals to favor one particular candidate, but that he was indicted on obstruction of justice:
http://www.wral.com/former-durham-elections-worker-charged-with-obstruction-of-justice/16896050/

[Chipper Chat]

57. but but but...both sides do it

RIGHT

[Sunlei]

59. thousands & thousands of tiny districts across America, hardly ANY were audited.

I don't trust states and local officials & local 'volunteers' to manage/supervise an honest election. To many bad apples.

[SunSeeker]

62. Putin will probably give him the same Russia friendship award he gave Tillerson. nt

[R Merm]

63. Fox news reported on the story,

but failed to report that he did this to help tRump and other conservative candidates.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/21/elections-worker-in-north-carolina-charged-with-changing-2016-vote-totals.html

[LiberalLovinLug]

66. Gawd they are insufferable

And I noticed they are not allowing comments on that story so no one can enlighten readers there either. As I as going to. But there are facebook and other share icons. You just know that Fox droids will simply assume its the evil Democrats and spread the word.