We’d send him out for chicory coffee, catfish and some chaw.
Isn’t that exactly what they came up with back in 2012 in their “autopsy report”? Instead, the went hard on the “Mexicans are rapists” with Trump. Methinks the “base” doesn’t want to share with “those brown people”, even if they share many of the same values.
On topic - Republicans and absentee ballot fraud - where have I heard that one before? And why don’t they seem concerned with stopping things actually effecting elections instead of making it harder for brown/black people to vote?
Nitpick: they want to affect elections. They don’t actually want to effect elections, at least in NC.
Interesting article interviewing one of the workers. She talks about being paid only in cash, employees being so high at work they’re passing out on top of computers, about witnessing for ballots whose voters she never met. Another worker refuses to talk because she doesn’t want to say something that’s going to land her in prison.
I don’t particular want the low-level workers to spend time behind bars, but it really, really, really sounds like Harris himself ought to be facing a federal indictment. And if he spent the rest of his life behind bars, maybe that’d be a wake-up call to other folks wanting to pervert elections.
Robeson county has had a lot of unusual things going on for long while. It’s a rare US county where the majority of people are non white - only 32% are white. 38% are Native American and 30% are black.
It’s home to the Lumbee Indian tribe which is not an official federal tribe so they cannot get most federal benefits other tribes get. They have been trying to be official for a long time but have not been successful yet. Some claim they want official status to open a casino since they are right on I-95. They say they will agree to not open a casino if they are made official.
Is Mark Harris participating in the pre-swearing in administrative stuff that the other newly elected members of Congress are doing?
I’m not finding stuff that he is, and given that the election isn’t certified, it’d seem pretty weird for him to do so.
The creep behind these shenanigans appears to have committed similar crimes in previous elections. This is important because there’s a narrative that this is a freak occurrence, a lone wolf guy. But it looks like Republicans have hired him over and over again specifically to achieve certain results in absentee ballots. The chances that they’d hire this consultant for this purpose without suspecting shady activity seems really, really low to me.
Calls for a new election are growing. I wonder how many folks who voted for Harris the first time would be comfortable casting another ballot for him–even if we limit it to people who cast their first ballot for him intentionally.
Oh, and wanna know something keen?
The elections board is dissolving, right, because of other shenanigans. So on Monday, Republicans introduced a new bill, proposing a new structure. They want to put the board under the control of a partisan actor:
Note that the “even-numbered year” means the year in which nearly all elections are held, right? So why, given Republican control of the state legislature, would they give the chair to the party with the “second highest number of registered affiliates”? Wouldn’t that be Democrats?
Nope.
These guys are too much.
Nate Silver: “We’re changing our rating on this race to Lean Prison.” 
That is spectacular.
This thread needs a link to Joe Bruno’s Twitter feed. Now it has one. 
ETA: It’s clear from his station’s reporting that this absentee ballot operation was going on in Robeson County as well.
all that cheating and they just barely won. Maybe they were following the NASCAR saying if you are not cheating, you are not winning. 
Reminds me of the joke from JFK’s father in 1960, something about he was not going to pay for a landslide .
North Carolina GOP director open to new election in disputed House race. It’s looking more and more likely that’s going to have to happen, and maybe with a new Republican candidate.
Republican Officials Had Early Warnings of Voting Irregularities in North Carolina–an article detailing previous concerns about this particular fraudster, concerns covered up by the state party in the interest of party unity.
Similar operations in the Western part of the state, which astonishingly enough were never investigated by the Republican district attorney.
Move over, Chicago. Back off, Russia. North Carolina is gonna show you how election fraud is done.
We’ve a got a 20 person mayoral race coming up. We’ll take the crown back.
Are we ready for the UN observers, like in any other banana republic?
please sweet Jesus take the crown back
Harris’ post-election FEC report is available, and rather interesting. His campaign spent $34K on “Reimbursement Payment for Bladen Absentee, Early Voting Poll Workers; Reimbursement Door to Door” to the Red Dome Group, Leslie McCrae Dowless’ employer, and another nearly $8K to Red Dome for “Robocalls and Robeson mailer.”
This has apparently been going one for years. Check out this video (I don’t know if an online transcript is available).
And still no tweets from the Donald in Chief about the rampant election fraud in North Carolina? Funny how fast he was to accuse Democrats in the Florida elections with no evidence, but here the evidence is piling up yet he keeps his trap shut.