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Prominent VA politician implicated in NC GOP voter fraud deceit
https://www.facingsouth.org/2017/04/prominent-va-politician-implicated-nc-gop-voter-fraud-deceit
An elections watchdog is calling for a criminal investigation into whether the campaign of former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, the N.C. Republican Party and their attorneys falsely accused hundreds of citizens of voter fraud in the wake of last year's election, which McCrory narrowly lost to Democrat Roy Cooper.
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Last week Democracy North Carolina released "The Deceit of Voter Fraud," a report documenting how in the aftermath of the November 2016 gubernatorial elections the McCrory-NCGOP-HVJT team had filed legal paperwork charging about 600 voters with committing fraud or casting suspect absentee ballots. Nearly all of the accusations proved false, and the watchdog group wants state and federal officials to look into whether the protest filings may have violated state and federal laws against harassing and intimidating innocent voters, corrupting the election process and obstructing an election canvass.
"The crusade did not stop even after McCrory's attorneys were told by some elections officials that their claims were wrong, that they were confusing voters' names with other people, that they were using bad data," the report says. "Instead of stopping, the attorneys caused more charges to be filed that maligned more innocent voters."
An elections watchdog is calling for a criminal investigation into whether the campaign of former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, the N.C. Republican Party and their attorneys falsely accused hundreds of citizens of voter fraud in the wake of last year's election, which McCrory narrowly lost to Democrat Roy Cooper.
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Last week Democracy North Carolina released "The Deceit of Voter Fraud," a report documenting how in the aftermath of the November 2016 gubernatorial elections the McCrory-NCGOP-HVJT team had filed legal paperwork charging about 600 voters with committing fraud or casting suspect absentee ballots. Nearly all of the accusations proved false, and the watchdog group wants state and federal officials to look into whether the protest filings may have violated state and federal laws against harassing and intimidating innocent voters, corrupting the election process and obstructing an election canvass.
"The crusade did not stop even after McCrory's attorneys were told by some elections officials that their claims were wrong, that they were confusing voters' names with other people, that they were using bad data," the report says. "Instead of stopping, the attorneys caused more charges to be filed that maligned more innocent voters."
The banality of evil on full display. The GOP operatives who did this manage to be petty, monstrous and incompetent all at the same time. So sorry for the voters who had their honor besmirched. And so sorry for the pain they are inflicting on my state. Dishonestly accusing voters of fraud because you are trying to overturn election results undermines public trust in democracy. I hope they are punished. To me, this seems criminal.
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Bushvgore..this needs to hit the airwaves..the election thieves are everywhere...
The banality of evil on full display - I couldn't have said it better...good luck to Vogel in her quest for Lt. Gov. VA..NOT!
to swing an election. Absentee is easier to manipulate, but ironically, NC GOP did not require photo ID for that form of voting in their Monster Suppression Law. There is no logical reason to exclude it, other than partisan. Absentee is preferred by older white Republicans so they left it alone. They got concerned real fast when black GOTV groups started using it.
Voter suppression is the real story, and the courts need to recognize that it is every bit as dishonest and detrimental to society as the mythical fraud.