Feb. 26 (Reuters) – Republican North Carolina's Mark Harris said on Tuesday that he would not stand in the US House of Representatives after holding a new election for reasons for corruption in the 2018 vote.
In an email, Harris invoked health problems to justify his refusal to run for office. In the November 6 election, he had led Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes, but state officials refused to certify him victor because of allegations of irregularities in the vote.
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Voters go to the polls for the 2018 midterm elections
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Voters line up in the rain in front of the Bright Family and Youth Center in the Columbia Heights district of Washington, DC on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Across the country, voters went to the polls on Tuesday. the most important mid-term elections of those years. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Voters line up in the rain in front of the Bright Family and Youth Center in the Columbia Heights district of Washington, DC on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Across the country, voters went to the polls on Tuesday. the most important mid-term elections of those years. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
An elector is waiting for help from a volunteer at Tuttle Park Recreation Center on Tuesday November 6, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio. Across the country, voters went to the polls Tuesday to participate in one of the most prominent mid-term elections in years. (AP Photo / John Minchillo)
Voters are preparing to vote at the Tuttle Park Recreation Center on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio. Across the country, voters went to the polls Tuesday to participate in one of the most prominent mid-term elections in years. (AP Photo / John Minchillo)
Voters voted at the Glen Echo Presbyterian Church Polling Station on Tuesday November 6, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio. Across the country, voters went to the polls Tuesday to participate in one of the most prominent mid-term elections in years. (AP Photo / John Minchillo)
US Representative Mike Kelly, in the center, talks with a reporter from his polling station after voting on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Kelly faces Democratic challenger Ron DiNicola in the newly redesigned 16th District of Pennsylvania. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic)
Representative Scott Perry, R-Pa., Right, candidate of the 10th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, welcomes an elector outside the Carroll Township Municipal Building on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 in Dillsburg, in Pennsylvania (AP Photo / Matt Slocum)
Representative Scott Perry, R-Pa., Second from right, candidate of the 10th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, smiles as he waits in line to vote at the Carroll Township Municipal Building, on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania. AP Photo / Matt Slocum)
Voters arrive at the Tuttle Park Recreation Center polling station on Tuesday November 6, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio. Across the country, voters went to the polls Tuesday to participate in one of the most prominent mid-term elections in years. (AP Photo / John Minchillo)
Sarah Thomas, an election worker, places signs outside the polls before the polls open on Election Day in Atlanta on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Electors across the country are went to the polls Tuesday for one of the most important mid-term elections in years. (AP Photo / David Goldman)
Voters line up at the opening of the polls at the David Park Community Center on Tuesday November 6, 2018 in Hollywood, Florida (Susan Stocker / Sun Florida-Sentinel of South Florida via AP)
A voter from the Jewish community is leaving after voting in the mid-term elections at the East Midwood Jewish Center polling booth in Brooklyn, New York, on November 6, 2018. – Americans have begun to vote on Tuesday in mid-term critical elections will mark the first major test of Donald Trump's presidential electors, with congressional control at stake. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (The photo credit should match to ANGELA WEISS / AFP / Getty Images)
FAIRFAX, USA – NOVEMBER 06: Voters go to the polls Tuesday morning to vote in the mid-term elections in Fairfax, Virginia, on November 6, 2018. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu / Getty Agency Images)
Elector submits ballot at mid-term elections at East Midwood Jewish Center polling booth, Brooklyn, New York, November 6, 2018. – The Americans began voting on Tuesday at the polls. 39 mid-term critical elections, which constitute the first major test conducted by Donald Trump's presidency, with congressional control in play. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (The photo credit should match ANGELA WEISS / AFP / Getty Images )
A man votes at the Greenspring Retreat Center on the day of the mid-term elections in Fairfax, Virginia, on November 6, 2018. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (The photo credit should correspond to ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Images)
Members of the Greenspring Republican Club wait for potential voters to share information at the Greenspring Retreat Center during the mid-term election day in Fairfax, Virginia on November 6, 2018. (Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Images)
The stickers remain in place while election officials wait for voters to vote in the mid-term elections at PO 140 in Manhattan, New York, United States, November 6, 2018. REUTERS / Andrew Kelly
Voters line up at the Brunswick Junior High School gymnasium to receive their ballot for the mid-term elections on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo / Robert F. Bukaty)
Stuart Wood, of Stockton, Mo., voted at Caplinger Woods Campgrounds and Campgrounds on Tuesday November 6, 2018 in Stockton, Mo. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel)
Kristen Leach votes with her six-month-old daughter Nora on polling day in Atlanta on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. (AP Photo / David Goldman)
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The bipartisan electoral committee of North Carolina unanimously ordered a new vote last week in the 9th congressional district after hearing evidence that a Harris campaign agent had orchestrated a fraudulent scheme.
This decision came after Harris, who had spent months trying to defend himself, called for new elections and acknowledged that the public had lost confidence in the results of last year.
"I also owe the citizens of the ninth district a very fit person during the new campaign," Harris said in an e-mail.
No date has yet been set for the new election in the country's last unsettled ballot in 2018. The result will not change the balance of power in the democratically controlled House of Representatives. (Report by Letitia Stein in Tampa, Florida, edited by Jonathan Oatis)
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