Once again we see repubs clinging to power by desperate, illegal means. They know they're doomed and will try any underhanded trick under the sun to postpone their inevitable fall.

Lock 'em up!

The executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections revealed Monday that state officials had uncovered a “coordinated” and “unlawful” effort to collect absentee ballots on behalf of a Republican congressional candidate in the November election.

Kim Strach, the board’s executive director, made the comments at a closely watched public evidentiary hearing in Raleigh on Monday following a monthslong investigation into election irregularities in the state’s 9th Congressional District. The state board declined to certify the race last November and could order a new election after the hearing. Republican Mark Harris currently leads Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in the race.

In the first public comments outlining the results of the state’s probe, Strach said investigators had evidence that McCrae Dowless, a political operative working on behalf of the Harris campaign, filled out and mailed in incomplete or blank ballots from both his office and home. She said Dowless paid people in cash to collect requests for absentee ballots and the ballots themselves. The state board also has evidence, she said, that Dowless paid people to falsify signatures on absentee ballots indicating that they had witnessed those ballots being filled out (North Carolina requires two witnesses to someone filling out an absentee ballot).

It is not illegal to help someone request an absentee ballot in North Carolina, but it is illegal for anyone other than a close relative to take custody of the actual ballot.

Buh-bye

Or is there an actual penalty for cheating?

NOT legitimately elected.

Probably EVERY SOUTHERN state!!! (wouldn't surprise me in the least) HATE RETHUGS more and more each day!!!!

the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial results. And the 2016 Wisconsin presidential results. And the 2004 Ohio presidential results. And the 2000 Florida presidential results. At some point, as evidence of Republican tampering is laid out, doubts like mine are no longer conspiracy-mongering. By not questioning, not demanding investigations, being polite and silent, we betray democracy. Our opposition is comprised of criminals.

And no, it's not prison; I am certain the GOP can find some flunky to take the fall and accept $50k/year to sit in prison to protect the real malefactors.

The way to solve this problem is to remove ALL the Republicans from office in the state of North Carolina for the next five election cycles.

Wonder how many other states have the same thing going on.