(Confirmed) Vote Tampering In North Carolina

[MomentsofSanity]

Have the GOP explained yet how this is the Democrats fault?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I feel like from the text of the article they are saying pretty clearly they won't.

I'm going with they will until they don't, but then "reconciliation" may raise its ugly head and that is not acceptable these days.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Have the GOP explained yet how this is the Democrats fault?

Maybe Slow will show.

 

[zinfamous]

Why haven't the brainless MAGA zealots swarmed into this thread to defend these treacherous acts?

 

[Brainonska511]

Why haven't the brainless MAGA zealots swarmed into this thread to defend these treacherous acts?

It is awfully quiet. Can't quite place my finger on why...

 

[Brainonska511]

Seems like the Republican congressional candidate sought out the unscrupulous individual now at the center of the allegations, despite warnings that he was a shady character:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...06139e540e5_story.html?utm_term=.83a80ea15bca

 

[DrDoug]

Seems like the Republican congressional candidate sought out the unscrupulous individual now at the center of the allegations, despite warnings that he was a shady character:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...06139e540e5_story.html?utm_term=.83a80ea15bca

Unscrupulous?

Walter McDuffie, the chairman of the Bladen County Republican Party, told The Washington Post that he warned the Harris campaign about Dowless’s criminal record, which includes felony convictions for fraud and perjury and a misdemeanor charge for passing a worthless check in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Change the word "warned" to "told" and it sounds like he was giving Harris a job recommendation for a fine conservative activist.

 

[Meghan54]

Now this smacks of something not quite kosher:

Days before North Carolina’s board of elections could vote to call a new race between Harris and Democrat Dan McCready in the state’s disputed 9th Congressional District, Republican lawmakers passed a bill requiring a new primary when the board rules a campaign must be run over again. That would give Republican voters the ability to sideline Harris in a special election, after accusations of illegal collection and manipulation of absentee ballots by McCrae Dowless, an operative hired by Harris campaign consultants.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-north-carolina-special/ar-BBQVKq4?li=BBnbfcQ

Damn, NC Repubs, like most Repubs it seems these days, have no shame.

 

[DrDoug]

Now this smacks of something not quite kosher:



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-north-carolina-special/ar-BBQVKq4?li=BBnbfcQ

Damn, NC Repubs, like most Repubs it seems these days, have no shame.

In America, cheating means that you lose and the runner-up becomes the winner. In Republican Land, if a Republican is caught cheating Republicans get a do-over.

The fact that they think this is fair shows us how far off the rails the Republican party has gone.

 

[Zorba]

Now this smacks of something not quite kosher:



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-north-carolina-special/ar-BBQVKq4?li=BBnbfcQ

Damn, NC Repubs, like most Repubs it seems these days, have no shame.

Yet, when it comes to all other voting rules we get there "too close to the election, must not change now."

 

[Brainonska511]

Yet, when it comes to all other voting rules we get there "too close to the election, must not change now."

Always great when the status quo is exclusionary and they justify it as "too late to do anything now," knowing that the unfairness of the system will perpetuate the unfair status quo.

 

[Brainonska511]

The House will not be seating the representative-elect in question according to the incoming majority leader:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...09dedc-0abb-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html

 

[kage69]

Earth to Paul LePage: this is what it looks like when someone tries to steal an election.

 

[Jhhnn]

The House will not be seating the representative-elect in question according to the incoming majority leader:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...09dedc-0abb-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html

Of course not. They won't seat anybody not certified by the bipartisan state election board, rightfully so. In the meanwhile, it looks like the NC GOP is just singing "Stand by your man".

 

[Zorba]

Can someone explain why the court dismissed the election board? I read a NYT article that was pretty long, but never really said why.

 

[Jhhnn]

Can someone explain why the court dismissed the election board? I read a NYT article that was pretty long, but never really said why.

The election board was only mandated to exist until Jan 1, iirc. They wanted to extend their tenure as did the governor, but the court ruled there was no basis to do so. The GOP legislature then changed the law so that the governor couldn't appoint a new board until Feb 1, taking the heat off for awhile. They also made it so that a new election would also have a new primary, paving the way for Harris to be replaced by another Repub in the general election, somebody who doesn't bear the taint of this imbroglio.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/poli...emergency-petition-results-certify/index.html

 

[esquared]

The election board was only mandated to exist until Jan 1, iirc. They wanted to extend their tenure as did the governor, but the court ruled there was no basis to do so. The GOP legislature then changed the law so that the governor couldn't appoint a new board until Feb 1, taking the heat off for awhile. They also made it so that a new election would also have a new primary, paving the way for Harris to be replaced by another Repub in the general election, somebody who doesn't bear the taint of this imbroglio.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/poli...emergency-petition-results-certify/index.html

^^^ bolded:
So they made this so they get to have a mulligan because their dirty guy got caught?

How can that even be legal? Is someone with any integrity looking to file a lawsuit about that redo with another candidate?

 

[trenchfoot]

Hey, if getting caught red handed messing with the right to vote is of less importance than hanging on to power any and every way possible, then there's nothing, absolutely nothing stopping the the GOP from ripping the Constitution and Bill of Rights to shreds because at some time in the near future, it's going to be the only card the Repubs will have left to play.

I mean, they're already doing some really amazing things dancing around the edges of legality and occasionally stepping over it like what happened in North Carolina, so this trip down the road to fascism is the only logical course of action for the party if they feel they absolutely must stay in power or cease to exist.

 

[zinfamous]

^^^ bolded:
So they made this so they get to have a mulligan because their dirty guy got caught?

How can that even be legal? Is someone with any integrity looking to file a lawsuit about that redo with another candidate?

Of course it's not legal.



....oh yeah, remember when we needed to repeal half of the Voting Rights Act because "it wasn't needed?" lol--this is that test--and what the GOP had been salivating for.

Let's see if the law steps in and beats my redneck brethren into the curb for this malfeasance. I won't hold my breath...

 

[sandorski]

Of course it's not legal.



....oh yeah, remember when we needed to repeal half of the Voting Rights Act because "it wasn't needed?" lol--this is that test--and what the GOP had been salivating for.

Let's see if the law steps in and beats my redneck brethren into the curb for this malfeasance. I won't hold my breath...

It's almost as if that nearly everytime a major longstanding Regulation is nullified, the original effect that the Regulation was made to address, mysteriously returns.

 

[Sonikku]

And if Republicans get away with it, it will become a model for the country. By the time this blows up for joe blow voter, it won't matter. Minority rule will be secured.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Time for Trump to restart the voter fraud committee

 

[fskimospy]

It’s odd that conservatives who claimed to be so very threatened by voter fraud seem so quiet and uninterested in a large and obvious election fraud campaign that appears to have stolen a seat from the rightful winner.

Gee, I wonder why. Clearly it couldn’t be that conservatives never cared about fraud to begin with so what is left?

 

[Amused]

So, the first and only verifiable, provable case of widespread voter fraud and an ACTUAL conspiracy to fix an election in decades and it's not the dems. Not illegals. Not the illiminutty.

It's the fucking Republicans.

Accuse your opponent of that which you are doing.

 

[Brainonska511]

Some more updates on this story:

Investigators found ballot scheme in race: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Candidate's son warned father of political operative's shenanigans: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...481bf264fdc_story.html?utm_term=.342d2ef51194