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

[new_patomic]

although the NC GOP is a complete sh**t show and I don't trust them I really wish the board was a bit more open about the situation. Most of the info we know is from journalists going directly to the county.

It's a literal criminal investigation at this point. How transparent should it be?

[new_patomic]

The State Election Board has a duty to the citizens of North Carolina to protect the integrity and security of their elections. So they're more than correct to deny/shoot down knee jerk calls to certify the election results anyway.

[new_patomic]

There's been more outrage and coverage of conspiracy theories due to Broward being slow to count ballots than there has been of legitimate and apparently persistent election fraud in North Carolina which might have actually affected a congressional race.

[new_patomic]

I am certainly no Harris fan... And I think there should be not only a new election... and probably even a new primary.  But do ppl really think Harris knew there was outright fraud going on? (vs thinking maybe that this Bladen Co guy was just aggressive at getting ppl to early vote or something?).

I'm asking b/c I genuinely have no idea regarding the likelihood that Harris knew about the actual Fraud type stuff or not.  In one since I just can't imagine anyone would be so reckless (& not think there was a decent likelihood of getting caught (especially since Harris has to know how odd the numbers would look... since he was on the losing side of this scheme in 2016 (I think).  and he had to think things look fishy in 2016 primary. 

Is it possible that in 2016 he just thought this guy was a pushy salesman type person who legally hustled absentee votes... and so this election he hired him so he would be on the losing end of the absentee battle.... Or did he really know that the votes were being manipulated illegally?  (honest thought... not just knee jerk lock him up... or knee jerk he's innocent)

We don't know.

But it's definitely a question now, whereas previously there wasn't any real evidence or suggestion that he might have been aware of McCrae Dowless' actions.

[new_patomic]

https://twitter.com/NickOchsnerWBTV/status/1072538777292279809

Somehow jimrtex and Bagel are going to bury their heads in the sand still

Well obviously we can't trust the NCGOP when they call for a new election due to election fraud. They've been accused of election fraud!