Democrats Weigh Options In Potentially Tainted N.C. Congressional Race
State investigators appear focused on whether a Republican political operative violated the law by hiring people to collect mail-in ballots from voters. The GOP candidate won with a 900-vote margin.
Election fraud has been a much discussed, seldom seen phenomenon in U.S. elections over the past several decades. But new details emerging from government and media investigations into the vote-counting in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District paint a picture of a tight race where potentially illegal voter fraud could have skewed the outcome.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections has declined to certify the race, in which Republican Mark Harris leads Democrat Dan McCready by about 900 votes in the unofficial tally. Instead, the board has begun investigating potential fraud in the district.
The Harris campaign confirmed to NPR Tuesday that it had received a subpoena for
