GOP Opens Door for New CN Election Among Fraud Complaints

Republicans are preparing for a new election in the 9th district of North Carolina, while there was growing suspicion that the results would have been tainted by widespread fraud.

Mark Harris Mark HarrisTrump, Russians, Fraud Attendant: Maybe We Need a Commission on "Electoral Integrity" CN GOP Leader Congratulates Journalists for Covering allegations of electoral fraud According to a journalist paid to collect ballots at the House of North Carolina, she thought well to MORE the Republican pastor currently at the head of the party in the race, he said Friday that He "wholeheartedly supports a new election" if an investigation revealed that "illegal activity" could have altered the outcome of the election – a remarkable reversal for a candidate who had previously demanded representatives of the state certify the election results.

Similarly, Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina GOP, said he "lightened" by allegations of fraud and insisted that Republicans would support a new election if the council of North Carolina state elections could show that the initial results were marred by voting irregularities.

The board, which has so far refused to certify the results after the November 6 election after allegations of fraudulent activities involving postal votes were formulated, decided to hold a hearing on the evidence on December 21st.

He could then order a rematch during a general election between Harris and the Democratic candidate, veteran and businessman Dan McCready. The new House led by the Democrats could also call for new elections.

million. McCready said Monday that his campaign was already preparing for special elections as members of the legal staff of Democrat House positions in the Republican fortress. 19659005] "We are now preparing in case we have a special election," said McCready, who recently pulled out his dealership, in an interview on Monday at the "Morning Joe" newspaper of the MSNBC channel. An electoral commission has launched an investigation. "

A new election could put Harris in a precarious position, the Republican currently ahead of McCready with 905 votes in total – less than a point in a district that Republicans have accounted for more than five decades.

President Trump Donald John TrumpThe Memo Decision: Ayers Highlights Trump's Proposal by NASA to Show Stephen Curry the Evidence of Landings on the Moon the MORE Funding Bill on Leadership Should Include the financing the wall, the end of the "capture and loosening" in the district in 2016 by more than 11 points.The same year, the representative of Robert Pittenger of Robert Miller to Pittenger – A contested candidate in North Carolina raises prospect of congressional investigation North Carolina GOP nominee says it will support new election if evidence of fraud is manifested t The Hill & # 39; s Morning – Presented by T-Mobile – The political currents that will lead to the confrontation of MORE closures (R), which currently holds the seat, were reelected by more than 16 points, but he ended up losing his Republican primary to Harris.

But Democrats across the country improved their status this year in a larger number of GOP suburbs as the party sought to mobilize voters angry with the president. The party eventually won 40 seats in the November mid-term elections

. A new election could put 9th District of North Carolina to the test. It includes more GOP rural areas, such as Bladen County (which is central to the so-called mail-order voting system), but also the suburbs of Charlotte.

McCready dominated Harris throughout the campaign, more than doubling the number of Republican fundraisers.

State strategists believe that it is increasingly likely that a new election will take place, although they have pointed out that the hearing of the Council of elections was going to take place. Give a clearer picture of what may have happened and what will follow.

"Much would depend on whether the Harris campaign was aware of the fraud that could have taken place. It's hard to believe that Mark Harris would have known. Carter Wrenn, a GOP strategist based in North Carolina, told The Hill.

"If people are happy with his answer, it will be a close election," said Wrenn. "If he does not, he will have a problem."

A convicted criminal who was working on behalf of the Harris Campaign as an independent contractor was put at the center of fraud allegations surrounding the race.

Several witnesses. stated that Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., a Bladen District Supervisor in charge of soil and water conservation who had worked for years in local political circles, paid them to collect voters' ballots. , which is illegal in North Carolina.

Investigators looked CNN reported an unusually high number of mail and non-returned ballots in Bladen County and nearby Robeson County.

Dowless recorded nearly half of the 1,311 ballots requested.

Harris beat McCready in Bladen County: mail ballots, unofficial report.

In his video statement Friday, Harris stated that he "was absolutely oblivious to" no wrongdoing "during the elections and said that he would continue to cooperate with the investigator.

There are two different ways to trigger new elections. The state election council is legally entitled to hold new elections, but that would only provoke a reorganization of the general, since the main results were certified.

The United States House of Representatives, which holds the ultimate authority on congressional elections. may also request special elections, which would trigger a new ranking process, which would be followed by primary and general elections. Leading Democrats as a Minority Leader in the House of Deputies Nancy Pelosi Nancy Freedom Caucus Freedom Caucus Calls for Leadership to Include Wall Funding, the End of "Blocking" of the Bill Black Caucus funding hangs as mandate talks limit term of office Insurgent Democrats are increasing pressure on party leaders to impose a term limit. MORE (D-Calif.) Hinted at the possibility of not sitting in Harris if the investigation is not resolved.

Harris beats Pittenger at the May primary. But the Washington Post reported that Pittenger and his team suspected the fraud had occurred in the primary, mainly in Bladen County, the same county at the heart of the Harris-McCready conflict.

District arrives after a week of battle narrative in the highly contested races in the Senate and Governor of Florida. During these fights, Republicans, led by Trump, repeatedly made baseless accusations of fraud by Democratic election officials.

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But in North Carolina, Republicans have taken a different approach to electoral fighting in recent days, as a special election seems more and more likely.

Rep. Mark Meadows Mark Randall MeadowsThe Memo Decision: Ayers casts a harsh light on Trump Meadows seeks to materialize his decision. Fractious GOP promises to unify the minority of the MORE House (RN.C.), the conservative party chairman. The House Freedom Caucus has become the last Republican to open the door to a new potential election.

He stated in an interview with Hill.TV last week that it was still too early to tell if a new contest was warranted in the district, noting that there are minor irregularities " in each election that do not affect the outcome ".

But, Meadows adds, "if there were frauds that affected the outcome of the elections, then certainly a new election would be appropriate.

"That being said, it is too early to suggest it. I do not know if we even have a complete understanding, apart from the reports, of what is happening. "