The new NC State Board of Elections is hearing evidence in the 9th District Congressional race controversy this week. It is being live-streamed on our local media channels and covered heavily as the top event in our local news. One interesting point that came out via a WRAL investigation and reported on Friday, February 15th is that operatives for the Democratic Bladen County Improvement Association PAC actually submitted more improper absentee ballots than the Republican operatives for McCrae Dowless. So much for this issue being only one side of the aisle. (see second half of the WRAL article - https://www.wral.com/9th-district-d...n-5-absentee-votes-in-bladen-county/18193986/ Yet somehow the new State Election board consisting of three Democrats and two Republicans somehow seems determined to only investigate the fraud by McCrae Dowless in regards this election. I was surprised that the Republican party is not objecting to this limited scope until a news commentator explained it. The number of ballots touched by operatives of McCrae Dowless appears to only number around 400. The margin in the election is about 900 votes. Limiting the investigation to a mere 400 ballots makes a judgment by the State Election Board that the actions of McCrae Dowless did not change the results of the election more likely. However if the scope of the election investigation increases to include other absentee ballots it becomes more likely that the election will need to be re-done. This circus will continue all week... Key witness won't testify in 9th District hearing, while others detail scheme to collect absentee ballots https://www.wral.com/key-witness-wo...-scheme-to-collect-absentee-ballots/18201171/
People are going to confuse this thread with the ninth circuit of the Supreme Court. Yeah, anyways, it’s whole lot of snitching going on against the republicans and their illegal activities voting operation. You’re once again expecting a democrat to be investigated because a Republican is being investigated because you unfairly believe the narrative that the right wing media sells you. It’s the same thing with Trump you guys want baseless investigations into Hillary Clinton because you can no longer tell the difference between fact and fiction.
Go read the WRAL article --- if the Democrats did the exact same thing as Republicans then this should be investigated as well. BTW WRAL is a left-wing media outlet which is calling for a full investigation.
Yes, election officials helping both parties were involved in the fraud.... Bladen poll workers looked at early vote totals in sheriff race https://www.wral.com/the-latest-bla...t-early-vote-totals-in-sheriff-race/18200098/
Let's quote some of the text... Other frequent signatories, however, almost exclusively appeared on the ballots of registered Democrats. Lola Wooten’s name appeared as a witness on at least 95 counted absentee ballots in Bladen County, all but six of whom were Democrats. On Oct. 1 alone, she signed 15 absentee ballots as a witness for voters near Elizabethtown. Wooten did not respond to requests for comment. Although he said Wooten is an active member of the (Democratic) Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, North Carolina Central University law professor Irving Joyner, who represents the group, said its leadership decided not to engage in absentee ballot efforts in the 2018 election like it did in past years. But that wouldn’t stop individuals from doing it on their own. "In the past, there have been members of the association involved in helping a number of people to get their ballots signed and witnessed to be able to get them back to the board of elections,” Joyner said. “I know in the past Lola Wooten has been one of those individuals, so she is well aware of the protocol for doing that.” .... But Joyner acknowledged that both Wooten and Deborah Monroe, who signed at least 56 absentee ballots in Bladen County, have received subpoenas to appear at the State Board of Elections hearing. The Bladen County Improvement Association paid both women around $1,000 in the month before the 2018 election for get-out-the-vote efforts, according to the PAC’s fourth-quarter campaign finance report. The association also paid $1,200 to Sandra Guions, who signed at least 69 absentee ballots in Bladen County, for get-out-the-vote efforts in the two weeks before the election. Neither Monroe nor Guions returned messages seeking comment. But Joyner said those were payments for monitoring work at polls, expenses and other get-out-the-vote activities. “No individual received payments for the purpose of assisting or obtaining absentee ballots on behalf of BCIA,” Joyner said in an email. (note: neither did operatives for the Republicans according to their lawyer)
Consultant incensed political operative used campaign money to collect absentee ballots https://www.wral.com/the-latest-con...n-money-to-collect-absentee-ballots/18200098/
The Latest: Mark Harris expected to testify in 9th District hearing https://www.wral.com/the-latest-mark-harris-expected-to-testify-in-9th-district-hearing/18200098/
10:55 a.m.: Attorney Alex Dale points out that Democrat Dan McCready had more absentee votes in the November election across the 9th District than Republican Mark Harris received. Political consultant Andy Yates says Harris could have won the election without a single absentee vote in Bladen and Robeson counties, the two areas where McCrae Dowless worked. https://www.wral.com/the-latest-mark-harris-expected-to-testify-in-9th-district-hearing/18200098/
The campaign finance reports states directly that the Democratic Bladen County Improvement Association paid people to obtain absentee ballot requests -- of course the Democratic lawyers and the Democratic state election board chairman are crying fowl when the Republican reads their own exact words to them from the reports. 11:05 a.m.: Attorney Alex Dale reads through campaign finance reports that he says shows the Bladen County Improvement Association paid people to obtain absentee ballot requests. State board Chairman Bob Cordle says get-out-the-vote refers to encouraging people to vote, and Dan McCready attorney Marc Elias says Dale is "smearing" people by suggesting they were collecting ballots just because they were paid by BCIA.