North Carolina elections board refuses to certify result amid possible fraud
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The chief investigator for the North Carolina Board of Elections took absentee by mail ballot request forms and their return envelopes from Bladen County immediately after the Nov. 6
election, according to the chair of the county's board of elections.
Bobby Ludlum, chair of the Bladen County Board of Elections, told WFAE Wednesday that the board's chief investigator, Joan Fleming, came to Elizabethtown to get the records during
the week of the election. Bladen County is in the 9th Congressional District.
The State Board of Elections voted 9-0 Tuesday not to certify the results of that race, where Republican Mark Harris is leading Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes. It cited a state
statute that allows the board to take any action to ensure that an election is determined "without taint of fraud or corruption and without irregularities” that may have changed the
results of an election.
Harris won Bladen County by 1,557 votes. The board met in closed session Tuesday after board member Joshua Malcolm alleged that "unfortunate activities" took place during the
race.
“I’m very familiar with the unfortunate activities that have happened in my part of the state," Malcolm said during the meeting. "And I am not going to turn a blind eye to what took place
to the best of my understanding, which has been ongoing for a number of years, and which has been repeatedly referred to the United States attorney and the district attorneys to
clean up. Those things have not taken place.”
Woodhouse said the state board should have certified the race Tuesday. Two years ago, Bladen County resident McCrae Dowless alleged that there was a "massive scheme to run an
absentee ballot mill involving hundreds of ballots." Dowless' allegations focused on a small race for the county's Soil and Water Conservation District, but it received statewide
attention because it was the same election as the close race for governor between Cooper and McCrory. Dowless's allegation was later dismissed.
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That is not acceptable under any circumstance.
North Carolina is one of the most corrupt states in the country
