NC District Gets New Elections After Election Fraud
posted by Dominque Elliott | March 27, 2019 | In NewsVoters in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District now know when they will head to the polls, again.
North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District polling stations will be busy one more time after the midterm elections in November. The state Board of Elections met in February and voted to set a new date for the general and primary elections for the 9th District, after declaring that November’s elections results should not be counted, reported National Public Radio. NPR also reported that the results were tainted by election fraud.
Republican Mark Harris, whose campaign was accused with ballot fraud, announced he was not going to run again. According to NPR, Harris stated his health and surgery scheduled in late March as his reason for not running. It was Harris’s political operative, Leslie McCrae Dowless, who was paid by the Harris campaign for get-out-the-vote work, at the center of the election fraud. NPR stated, “Dowless was indicted last week on charges of obstruction of justice and possessing absentee ballots.”
Keyotta McRae, a pre-health major, reacted, “I feel it says that our American politics can be very corrupted by the wrong people if we are not careful. And I am thankful that accusations of fraud were caught, so that we will not have the wrong people representing NC because not all North Carolina people sabotage and lie to get what they want or need.”
The state board of elections set May 14 as the date for primary elections in the 9th district. Then, in September, there will either be a runoff, if necessary, or a general election. NPR noted, a general election will be held November 5, if a runoff primary is necessary.
Democrat Dan McCready, who opposed Harris in the original election, and lost by 900 votes in the fraudulent race, is now fundraising in preparation for the new race. Hopefully, this will be a new start for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District’s elections, and maybe prevent some of North Carolina’s possible future corrupt elections.
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