If early vote totals were leaked, NC GOP says new election in NC's 9th is a must
Source: Charlotte Observer
The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party said if early vote totals in Bladen County were leaked before Election Day, this fact alone would likely require a new election in North Carolinas 9th Congressional District.
The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer reported Monday that early voting totals from Bladen County may have been leaked. Documents released by the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement show that early voting tabulations were run several days before the Nov. 6 election in Bladen County. A witness who signed that vote tabulation wrote in a sworn affidavit that the totals were viewed by officials at the one-stop site who were not judges.
This action by election officials would be a fundamental violation of the sense of fair play, honesty, and integrity that the Republican Party stands for. We can never tolerate the state putting its thumb on the scale. The people involved in this must be held accountable and should it be true, this fact alone would likely require a new election, Robin Hayes, the NC GOPs chairman, in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
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Botany
(70,510 posts)Funny I thought the problem was the republican running for Congress, Mr. Harris was paying
people to pick up and discard any absentee ballots that were going to go to the democratic
candidate not the leaking of early voting data by election officials.
BTW If Mr. Harris paid for the harvesting of ballots then why does he get to run again in
a 2nd election?
Perrenial Voter
(173 posts)primary election, in which the candidate apparently engaged in the same tactics, possibly defeating a more electable candidate by this process.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)If they have to have anything, they'll want a primary re-do.
The problem is, they'd be correct.
I'm sure the Supreme Court will happily sort it out, being 5-4 Repub.
Demonaut
(8,918 posts)they hope we accept "mistake" (mostly the 28%) versus "defrauding the public and the country"