Above is one affadavit submitted to the NC elections board, executed on Oct. 29, 2018, eight days before the Nov. 6 election. Here is another very similar affadavit executed on the same day:
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So this was developing well in advance of election day.
NC absentee files show the following records for these two voters:
first name |
last name |
age |
party |
TYPE |
REQ |
SENT |
RET |
STATUS |
Montgomery |
Datesha |
27
|
UNA |
MAIL |
Aug 24 |
Sep 11 |
-- |
SPOILED |
Montgomery |
Datesha |
27 |
UNA |
IN PERSON |
Oct 18 |
Oct 18 |
Oct 18 |
ACCEPTED |
Shipman |
Emma |
87 |
DEM |
MAIL |
Aug 24 |
Sep 11 |
-- |
SPOILED |
Shipman |
Emma |
87 |
DEM |
IN PERSON |
Oct 17 |
Oct 17 |
Oct 17 |
ACCEPTED |
Both ballots were requested on the same day. One was harvested on Sep. 16 (the Sunday after Hurricane Florence). Since it was sent out on Sept. 11, clearly the voter had had little time with it, which was probably the point of the scheme. “I gave her the ballot and she said she would finish it herself.” The other was harvested on Oct. 12. “She took the ballot and put it in an envelope and never asked me to sign it.” Both absentee ballots arrived as spoiled.
Evidently both women got notice in advance of election day that their ballots were spoiled, and they had a chance to vote in person at the Bladen County public library. They are both black. Across the county, 12% of black absentee voters had a spoiled ballot, compared to 7% of white voters. Interestingly, most of the Bladen County voters with spoiled absentee ballots were evidently notified, as almost all of them ended up voting in person. That points to a pretty good followup GOTV operation by someone. Montgomery reported two “investigators” coming to her door to inform her that her absentee ballot was not accepted.