Donald Trump and Republicans have been claiming “voter fraud” since 2016, and it looks like they finally found it. In a North Carolina congressional district where the GOP candidate won.
The North Carolina Republican Party said today a new election is warranted in the 9th Congressional District because of questions surrounding the way in which early vote totals were tabulated in Bladen County.
Dallas Woodhouse, the senior Republican staffer in North Carolina, said the party would call for a new election based on the details of an affidavit submitted by the North Carolina Democratic Party.
The NCDP’s affidavit was from a poll assistant in Bladen County who said she witnessed precinct judges and other officials tabulate the results of the county’s one early voting site on November 3, 2018, the last day of early voting.
“On Saturday, 11/3/18, the last day of early voting, the ‘tape’ showing election results at the one-stop polling site was run after the polls closed, and was viewed by officials at the one-stop site who were not judges. It is my understanding that this was improper,” wrote Agnes Willis, a precinct worker in the state, in an affidavit dated Nov. 29, according to The Charlotte Observer.
The earlier allegations of election fraud that originally shook the race revolve around McCrae Dowless, an independent contractor working for Harris’ campaign.
Dowless reportedly oversaw an operation that collected absentee ballots from voters before submitting them, which is against the law in the state.
The activity also allegedly took place in Bladen County.
The state Democratic Party today called on Harris to answer questions regarding this scandal.
“Mark Harris is hiding behind his lawyers,” North Carolina Democratic Party chair Wayne Goodwin said in a press conference. “Mark Harris must answer to the voters about what he knew and when he knew it.”
On Monday, Democrat Dan McCready said his campaign team was getting ready for a potential special election.
So far in 2018, Democrats have picked up 40 House seats across the country, the most for any party in a midterm election since the Watergate era.