Organized and Illegal Voting System by CN's Chief Electoral Officer in the 9th District

A North Carolina political officer paid workers to collect the mail ballots and falsify the witness certifications for these ballots, the presidential election official said on Monday.

Remarks by Kim Strach, the state election director for the State of North Carolina, at a hearing of the State Elections Council of North Carolina, provided the most detailed description to date of the Several months of investigation into alleged fraud in the 9th District of North Carolina.

Republican Mark HarrisThe election committee of Mark Harris NC will hold a hearing on the disputed House race on February 18th. Five remarks to remember from the latest fundraising reports in the period up to 2020 The NC government appoints a new election board amid a controversial race investigation into the House PLUS currently leads Democrat Dan McCready in the race with only 905 votes. But accusations of fraud and a long struggle for the composition of the state's electoral council have left the issue of the race in limbo for months.

Democrats called for a new election in the 9th district, arguing that the alleged fraud had spoiled the results of the current elections.

Meanwhile, Republicans have called on state election officials to certify Harris as the winner. They argue that the alleged fraud did not affect enough ballot papers to overturn the results of the election.

"Dr. Harris received 420 postal votes in Bladen County. He received only 259 postal votes in Robeson County. Together, we get 679 votes, "Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the Republican Party of North Carolina, said Friday.

"His margin of victory is 905 votes. Even if all his [absentee by mail] ballots were soiled, his margin of 905 votes would remain ".

In his opening statement, Strach described in detail a so-called ballot falsification scheme put in place by Leslie McCrae Dowless, a member of the Bladen County political group, who allegedly hired workers to falsify the ballot request forms. correspondence, collect postal ballots and falsify witness certifications as an apparent violation of the law. state election laws.

The alleged scheme was coordinated and well resourced, Strach said. She also said that security at the Bladen County Election Office, which included some of the alleged attempts to sabotage the vote, had been inadequate.

Dowless would have paid workers $ 150 for every 50 mail-ballot forms collected and $ 125 for every 50 ballots received, Strach said. In addition, Red Dome, a consulting firm hired by the Harris campaign, paid Dowless $ 131,275 between July 3, 2017 and November 7, 2018.

Lisa Britt, Dowless's former daughter-in-law, was among those who testified at the hearing on Monday. She stated that during the congressional race, Dowless paid her to collect ballots by mail, including unsigned ballot papers.

Britt also stated that she had voted in the November elections, while she was on probation for a crime conviction, a violation of North Carolina law. Dowless, she said, gave instructions to do so.

At least four of the five members of the North Carolina State Election Council are expected to vote to hold new elections in the 9th district. This may, however, be difficult if the panel members vote in favor of the parties. The council is composed of three Democrats and two Republicans.

Updated at 11:50