Hi Folks. No time to comment in detail, but just wanted to get your eyes on a very important hearing in North Carolina today. This kind of thing will be happening more and more in the future, as Republicans realize that they have no vision, no ideas, and that demographics are not going their way.
Keep your eyes on the 9th Congressional District of NC.
This is where things look desperately wrong, concerning absentee ballots. How they were collected, and how they WERN’T processed.
From VOX: www.vox.com/...
The ballot tampering scandal in the Ninth District reaches a climax with this week’s hearing.
By Dylan Scott@dylanlscottdylan.scott@vox.com Updated Feb 18, 2019, 9:05am EST
More than a month into the new Congress, there is still no United States Representative from North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District. A state hearing starting Monday should finally bring some clarity to one of the most bizarre election scandals in recent memory.
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House Democrats very publicly resolved in December not to seat Harris because of the fraud allegations. A leadership aide told me last week that, given the evidence in the case, they do not anticipate the board will certify the Republican’s win.
What we know — and don’t know — about the alleged ballot tampering
Here is some of what we know so far about the alleged ballot tampering scheme in the North Carolina Ninth Congressional District:
- Two counties in the district, Bladen and Robeson, had an unusually high number of absentee ballots that were requested but not returned for the 2018 election.
- Several voters in those counties said in sworn affidavits that an unidentified woman came to their house and collected their absentee ballots. One voter said the woman promised to finish filling out the incomplete ballot for them. Another voter said the ballot was not signed or sealed when the woman took it.
- Dowless was paid by the Harris campaign and was doing absentee work specifically, according to the Charlotte Observer and other affidavits sent to the state elections board. He was previously caught up in allegations regarding absentee ballots in 2016. The Harris campaign still owes $34,000 for absentee ballot work it hired outside contractors for, the New York Times reported.
- Britt and another woman related to Dowless, Jessica Dowless, told BuzzFeed News they were working for Dowless at an office during the campaign. They described counting the number of Democrats and Republicans who had voted. Absentee ballots were collected and brought to the offices. Dowless was paying his workers cash, even buying one person a car, and some of the staff were using drugs while on the job, per BuzzFeed’s reporting.
- Britt and Jessica Dowless were two people who witnessed an unusually high number of absentee ballots that were submitted in Bladen County, according to Judd Legum at Popular Information. Jessica said she was asked to witness ballots that had been brought back to Dowless’s offices.
- We’ve also learned that the ballots of some voters who said they gave their absentee ballots to a stranger were never actually submitted to local elections offices.
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