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Election 2018

Other felony news (NC-09 edition)

by David Anderson|  February 27, 20192:31 pm| 80 Comments

This post is in: Criminal Justice, Election 2018, Goddamned Traitors, Grifters Gonna Grift, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Good News For Conservatives

BREAKING: McCrae Dowless has been indicted on three counts of felonious obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and two counts of possession of absentee ballot #NC09 #ncpol @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/YytCpi9Av1 — Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 27, 2019 He is not the only one being charged. From the Raleigh News and …

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Election Fraud Open Thread: A Re-Run in North Carolina

by Anne Laurie|  February 25, 20199:15 am| 43 Comments

This post is in: Election 2018, local races 2019/2020, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Repubs in Disarray!, Voting Rights, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?

Democrat Dan McCready announces that he’s running for Congress again in the NC-09 special election. “Our right to vote is our most sacred freedom as Americans … I am running in the special election to represent the people of the 9th District.” Via ABC pic.twitter.com/CzkSuT04Ym — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 22, 2019 Great news! Thanks …

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In three days I’ve gone from thinking that Mark Harris should have known better to thinking there’s reason to believe he may have been actively directing the vote-buying scheme. https://t.co/gNFwtWxcMf

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 21, 2019

And too many of the Media Village Idiots are treating the whole shameless theft as some kind of quaint Suthron folk saga — practically Absalom, Absalom!, but with fewer run-on sentences. The Washington Post, which should know better:

… It was a heart-wrenching drama between an evangelical minister, who badly wanted to serve in Congress, and his lawyer son, who came forward with evidence that contradicted his father’s testimony.

Republicans and Democrats agreed that something went right compared with how partisan conflict often plays out in the country’s hyper-polarized political environment…

The hearing had taken a dramatic turn the previous day, when Harris’s 29-year-old son John, an assistant U.S. attorney in Raleigh, took the stand and described conversations and emails with his father in 2017 in which he warned the elder Harris against hiring Dowless. John Harris believed Dowless had broken the law in a previous election.

Harris parried confidently about his son’s testimony, explaining that he hadn’t taken the advice seriously. “My son was still my son — 27 years old,” he said.

What Harris did not say is that he had told another son, Matthew, on the eve of John’s testimony that he did not think his emails with John would come up in the hearing. He did not know that John Harris had already turned over the emails. More important, it was a sign that his campaign may not have fully complied with the state board’s subpoena for documents and communications related to Dowless…

Harris faced potential legal jeopardy and a brutal cross-examination from Elias, a prominent and aggressive Democratic lawyer from Washington. The board’s lawyers asked Elias whether he would let Harris go if Harris also agreed to say that a new election was warranted.

Freedman mentioned Harris’s health problems — he was still recovering from a serious infection that had led to sepsis and two strokes. Freedman added that Harris’s medications had affected his memory on the stand…

Republican politicians have for years railed against the threat of voter fraud in the U.S.

But when a North Carolina election was overturned this week because of election fraud by a Republican political operative, the GOP was largely muted in its responsehttps://t.co/jMqft7w9uS

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 23, 2019

The US Attorney in NC’s Eastern District was tipped off about the absentee ballot fraud scheme in #NC09 in 2017. He’s focused instead on rooting out extremely rare, usually mistaken instances of non-citizen voting. My story on Bobby Higdon: https://t.co/RVKFU4l1i8

— Allegra Kirkland (@allegrakirkland) February 22, 2019

A North Carolina State Court Declares War on the Republican Dominated North Carolina State Legislature!

by Adam L Silverman|  February 22, 20199:23 pm| 21 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, America, Domestic Politics, Election 2018, 2020 Elections, Open Threads, Politics, Popular Culture, Post-racial America

Shots fired!!! #ELB: Breaking: North Carolina State Court Rules State Voter ID Constitutional Amendment is Void Because Enacted by a Racially Gerrymandered Legislature; Not Clear if Ruling Will Stand https://t.co/XQmoGIVlve — Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) February 22, 2019 From Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog: Release: The Wake County Superior Court today ruled that the illegally gerrymandered North Carolina …

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NC-09 Shenanigans

by David Anderson|  February 21, 20194:04 pm| 40 Comments

This post is in: Election 2018, Goddamned Traitors, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?

Breaking news: The North Carolina board of elections called for a new election in North Carolina's 9th congressional district after examining evidence of absentee ballot fraud on behalf of GOP candidate. The vote was unanimous. — Sam Levine (@srl) February 21, 2019 Who is making book as to when the first criminal charges are filed?

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SHENANIGANS in NC-09

by David Anderson|  February 18, 201910:27 am| 48 Comments

This post is in: Election 2018, Goddamned Traitors, Open Threads, Politics, Bring On The Meteor, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Nobody could have predicted, Not Normal

.#NCSBOE Director Kim Strach: investigation found a "coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot operation.' #ncpol #nc09 — Jim Morrill (@jimmorrill) February 18, 2019 Open thread

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Well I’d like to get to know you

by DougJ|  February 1, 201912:02 pm| 109 Comments

This post is in: Election 2018

Whenever I find a good profile of a Democratic candidate for president, I try to share it here. I thought this article about Booker was very good. I always like articles written by local reporters. If you see a good one about Harris, let me know. So far, I’m mostly seeing pundity stuff about her …

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A Preliminary Strategic Cultural Assessment of the US 2020 Political and Election Operating Environment

by Adam L Silverman|  January 27, 201910:30 pm| 193 Comments

This post is in: America, Domestic Politics, Election 2016, Election 2018, 2020 Elections, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics, Popular Culture, Post-racial America, Silverman on Security, Not Normal

My bread and butter, in terms of analytical work, for the Army was doing cultural assessments. First at the tactical level and then at the theater and national strategic levels of operation. Much of the formats for these assessments were my creation because they largely didn’t exist in a formal sense until I was assigned …

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