Congressional Special Election (last call! unstickied after NY-27 final results)

[Sorenroy]

Are there enough votes in the precincts where the results look fudged that McCready could have won the election?

That's a very good question, and unfortunately NC is not as transparent in posting precinct level election results at a Statewide level.

In my opinion (and I know I'm biased), NC has some of the easiest accessed voter information there is. It might be a little slow to certify but it is incredibly easy to access with an interactive map. You are correct in saying that occasionally they do not split the early vote into the precincts, but I have it on very good authority that they will for this election (they did so in the primary as well).

https://er.ncsbe.gov/contest_details.html?election_dt=11/06/2018&county_id=9&contest_id=1183*

*As of right now, the absentee, one stop, and provisional ballots have yet to be broken down by precinct, however, they should be at some point in the future.

Also, it's easy to pull the registered voter list as well as the 2018 general voter file from the state's SOS page. I can't find it off hand, but if that's something y'all would like to look at I can put in some time pulling out information on Bladen County.

[Sorenroy]

Is there any chance that the primary will be redone as well? The 538 article seems to indicate that the anomalies were present but smaller there (not enough to chance the result). Also, the fact that this suspicious activity seems to stretch back through previous election years makes me think that the Harris team did not know about the fraud (at least at its onset, they may have learned later).

[Sorenroy]

Also IMO  Cooper should have appointed one of the GOP members as head of the board while the replacement is still a dem.
It seems the GOP members are fairly bipartisan and willing to work so he could picked one of the two.
By replacing a contraversial dem with another dem the optics aren't great.

They are working together for now, but this is North Carolina. That could easily change, especially given that there is a House seat at stake. The NCGOP has built up a solid reputation as totally untrustworthy and consumed by greed and a lust for power, so they should never be given the benefit of the doubt. Now, if we were in another state, perhaps you're right, sure.

I mean the optics would clearly look much better. Or atleast the indie should have been appointed the head. It really isn't good to make the head the head a dem again IMO.

That's stupid. I mean, the Republican candidate's campaign is essentially being investigated for fraud and the Democrat's have to appoint a Republican to a nine member board to save face? There are already four Republicans on the board who the Democrats can get to vote with them to show bipartisanship, they don't need to cede their majority on the board to do that. Also, addressing oddities in elections is not the only thing the Board does for the state. Giving up power for a single (admittedly important) issue makes no sense in the longer term.

[Sorenroy]

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http://www.bpr.org/post/nc-politics-roundup-republican-supermajority-comes-end


Nothing really new here, but seems to fall in line with coverage that Republicans seem to be coming back around on supporting Harris.