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Republicans were upset about election fraud — before it threatened their candidate

The Republican Party in North Carolina has been slow to accept the investigation into potential absentee ballot fraud. Credit: Erika P. Rodriguez, The Washington Post

Dallas Woodhouse, executive chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, spoke with great concern about the issue of election fraud.

It was 2016, and he was talking to a reporter from “This American Life,” the weekly public radio show, about questions being raised regarding signatures on some absentee ballots in Bladen County on the state’s southern border.

A group funded by Democrats in the state had been working on get-out-the-vote efforts in the area, and McCrae Dowless, a Republican soil and water supervisor with a checkered past, had filed a complaint, despite winning reelection.

View the complete December 6 article by Eli Rosenberg on The Washington Post website here.

GOP silent on election fraud scheme to steal North Carolina House seat

Republicans have nothing to say about evidence that shows one of their nominees benefited from election fraud.

The entire Republican Party machine — from Trump to Congress to Fox News — is refusing to acknowledge evidence of rampant election fraud in a North Carolina congressional race.

There are serious and credible reports that in at least one county, an operative working for Republican Mark Harris’ campaign ran a systemic fraud campaign in which absentee ballots belonging to real voters were either filled in with fake votes for Harris, or thrown away if they had already been filled in for Democrat Dan McCready.

The evidence of this fraud is so strong that the North Carolina State Board of Elections is refusing to certify results that would give Harris a victory over McCready in the 9th Congressional District. House Democrats are even considering refusing to seat Harris in the new Congress unless the controversy is resolved.

View the complete December 5 article by Oliver WIllis on the ShareBlue.com website here.

Trump suddenly silent on voter fraud now that GOP is accused of it

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Trump loves to spread conspiracy theories about nonexistent voter fraud — but he’s shutting up about evidence of actual voter fraud in North Carolina that may have helped a Republican candidate.

Evidence is mounting that voter fraud may have benefitted a Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina.

Yet despite Trump’s obsession with voter fraud, he is suddenly silent now that his own party — and a candidate he personally endorsed — might be in trouble for it.

Mark Harris declared victory after vote tallies showed him leading Democrat Dan McCready by a narrow 905-vote margin in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.

Democrats on Trump’s voter fraud commission urge leaders to be more transparent

The following article by Kurtis Lee was posted on the Los Angeles Times website October 25, 2017:

President Trump’s voter fraud commission, launched by executive order in May with the stated goal of restoring confidence and integrity in the electoral process, is now confronted with pushback from an unlikely group: its own members.

Two Democrats on the bipartisan commission sent letters to leaders of the panel last week condemning a lack of transparency.

“I honestly do not know what’s going on with the commission,” Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, the author of one of the letters, said on Wednesday. “This very much concerns me.” Continue reading “Democrats on Trump’s voter fraud commission urge leaders to be more transparent”

Trump’s disregard for the truth threatens his ability to govern

The following article by Karen Tumulty was posted on the Washington Post website January 24, 2017:

Donald Trump, having propelled his presidential campaign to victory while often disregarding the truth, now is testing the proposition that he can govern the country that way.

In the first five days of his presidency, Trump has put the enormous power of the nation’s highest office behind spurious — and easily disproved — claims. Continue reading “Trump’s disregard for the truth threatens his ability to govern”