North Carolina GOP director open to new election in disputed House race
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(CNN)The executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party says he supports a new election if allegations of fraud in the 9th Congressional District race are proven true and it impacted the outcome of the race.
Dallas Woodhouse claimed to CNN's Drew Griffin he was so upset after watching CNN's coverage of the controversy last night, he vomited.
"This has shaken us to the core," he said.
"We are not ready to call for a new election yet," Woodhouse added. "I think we have to let the board of elections come show their hand if they can show that this conceivably could have flipped the race in that neighborhood, we will absolutely support a new election."
His comments come as the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, the Wake County District Attorney's office and the state board of elections are investigating allegations that McCrae Dowless, who worked for Republican candidate Mark Harris' campaign, used absentee ballots to alter the vote in Bladen County.
Harris, a Baptist minister who ousted Rep. Robert Pittenger in a Republican primary this year, leads Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes. But investigators are probing whether some absentee ballots were altered by Dowless and a loosely connected group working with him or collected from voters but never turned in.
Dowless worked for Red Dome Group, a GOP political consulting firm that Harris paid more than $400,000.
Dowless earned more than $23,000 working on six campaigns dating back to 2010, and in most of those races, Dowless' candidates received a disproportionately higher percentage of absentee votes in Bladen County.
Woodhouse defended Harris, calling him a "good man" and said there's "no way he knew about this stuff and sanctioned it."
He also said it's unlikely anyone will be seated to represent North Carolina's 9th District when the new House is sworn in on January 3.
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Well I am ashamed. I didn't believe there was any real voter fraud happening but I should have believed the republicans when they continued to assert that there was. I guess they would know since they were committing it.......
BTW - has anyone see Cerenkov since this story broke?
Or wally, or.......seems we have several that have become scarce since right wing corruption is getting exposed.
I didn't know Wally was from NC.
I don't know where he's from. But is another of the usual suspects claiming Dem voter fraud.
We won't see many from the right on this article. No amount of spin can change the fact that NC republicans clearly cheated. But that's their motto: "Cheat to win and win to cheat.."
Hey, this is exactly what the trumpies here on NT were accusing us Dems of doing in California just about a week ago except for 1 thing. We didn't. They did. I was wondering where they got the idea from.
You know what they say......he who smelt it, dealt it.
The republicans have been screaming about the stench of voter fraud for a long long time. Now we know why the stench was so apparent to them.
I live in SOUTH Carolina.
even worse. that state should have been turned into a combination national landfill/confederate cemetery after the civil war.
Oh thank goodness! I was so worried about you. Thought maybe I would have to come and bail you out of jail. Don't make anymore trips to NC.....keep low for awhile. I got your back C!
Your comment is simple bigotry. Unsurprising.
Hey I got family in North Carolina!!
Galen, pay attention it's South Carolina that they are talking about...LOL...No more beer in the afternoon for you...
Does that mean he has to stop at noon? Lol
Ok, I'll switch to scotch.
I'll know you have, I am not under the alcafluence if Incahol but, thinkle pep I am, the drunker I stand here the longer I get. hic
HA. The ones screaming about voter fraud have their own party doing it.
Watched Maddow tonight. It seems there is a lot to this. The guy was investigated before for doing this. Several people involved too. From the sheriff that used him to someone in the DOJ. It was turned over to federal prosecutors and nothing seemed to happen from it. It also seems that the guy that knew about it was given a promotion by trump.
Had to figure Trump was in there somewhere.
But, but California, Florida....LMAO and the winner is North Carolina and the republican party...Cheaters at heart and in practice.
The sad thing is that our POTUS will not say a word about it. If it was dems with their hands caught in the cookie jar, trump would be screaming about it for the next 5 years.
And, to think they (the Republicans), tried to say that there was voter fraud in North Carolina in the last election and, it turned out they were right, except it was shown that it was coming from the Republicans again in the same district. Things that make folks go hmmmmm.
Wow - that's a throw back. I feel old.
new election my ass. disqualify the republican winner, award the office to the democrat, and seize the assets of the republican operative that committed voter fraud as fines before sending him to jail for life. let his family work the exit ramps with cardboard signs to feed themselves.
I think it's all hilarious.
And the funniest thing is that the True Believers will continue to Believe!