State Board of Elections staff will hold a random drawing at 5:15 p.m. today (Friday, March 15) to determine the order of candidates on primary and general election ballots for the new election in the 9th Congressional District.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2019 @ 9:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Crowded is an understatement. Twenty-six candidates from four political parties lined up to seek the vacant 3rd U.S. Congressional District seat in a July 9 special election
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Candidate filing for North Carolina's fraud-scarred 9th U.S. Congressional District will begin next week for a May 14 primary, and the general election is set for Sept. 10
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 10:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The filing period for candidates running in the special election in North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District begins Monday, March 4 and ends Friday, March 8.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With his congressional campaign in debt, his integrity under siege, his health in question, and a criminal investigation over corruption gathering steam, some political observers are doubtful.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 @ 10:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Rev. Mark Harris has thrown in the towel on his hopes of going to Congress. He called for a new election in the 9th U.S. Congressional District as evidence mounted of election fraud in Bladen County during the 2018 election.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2019 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Figuring out the logistics for a special election to fill the vacancy left by the passing of Rep. Walter Jones Jr., R-3rd District, won't be easy, said Gerry Cohen, former special counsel to the General Assembly.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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McCrae Dowless, the main person of interest in an alleged ballot harvesting ring that helped Republican Rev. Mark Harris defeat Democrat Dan McCready in November, appeared under subpoena at a State Board of Elections evidentiary hearing Monday but refused to testify.
Published: Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 @ 2:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The newly appointed, five-member State Board of Elections will hold a public evidentiary hearing later this month on claims of irregularities related to absentee by-mail voting and other alleged activities in certain counties in the 9th Congressional District.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 8:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A federal judge sentenced a former N.C. Board of Elections official to two months in federal prison followed by a year of supervised release for assisting a non-citizen to vote.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 1:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Rev. Mark Harris may know if he should plan to head to Washington, D.C. - or gear up for a new election in the contested 9th Congressional District - within a couple of weeks.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2019 @ 12:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The new State Board of Elections announced the long-awaited evidentiary hearing for the contested 9th Congressional District will take place Monday, Feb. 18, in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 @ 2:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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By a unanimous vote of all members present, the newly appointed State Board of Elections on Thursday elected Bob Cordle of Charlotte as board chair and Dr. Stella Anderson of Boone as board secretary.
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2019 @ 1:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Roy Cooper named three Democrats and two Republicans Thursday to the newly constituted State Board of Elections.
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2019 @ 6:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A story out from Charlotte Observer reporter Jim Morrill confirms that Joshua Malcolm, former Chair of the defunct North Carolina State Board of Elections, will not be nominated to serve on the new NCSBE.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 10:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tuesday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway rejected Harris' petition to force the State Board of Elections to certify him the winner of the hotly disputed 9th U.S. Congressional District election.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 1:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Republican Party has submitted a list of four nominees for the new State Board of Elections, from which Gov. Roy Cooper will select two. The N.C. Democratic Party offered its list Thursday afternoon, and one prominent name won't be among its four nominees.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 12:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway ruled Tuesday that the State Board of Elections is in the best position to weigh the factual and legal issues related to the 9th Congressional District contest.
Published: Friday, January 25th, 2019 @ 1:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republicans and Democrats held dueling news conferences Monday afternoon, trying to sway public opinion on the question of whether GOP Rep.-elect Mark Harris should be seated in the state's 9th U.S. Congressional District.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 @ 8:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican Rep.-elect Mark Harris says he expects a state court will certify him the winner of the disputed 9th U.S. Congressional District election.
Published: Saturday, January 19th, 2019 @ 3:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican Rep-elect Mark Harris will get his day in court. Thursday, Jan. 3, he filed a petition in Wake County Superior Court seeking to declare him the victor in the 9th U.S. Congressional District election
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2019 @ 6:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The campaign of the Rev. Mark Harris, Republican nominee for the 9th U.S. Congressional District, Thursday will ask Wake County Superior Court to certify his victory in the 2018 election
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2019 @ 5:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Elections continues its investigation into irregularities affecting absentee voting in the 9th Congressional District
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 2:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a letter sent Sunday to Gov. Roy Cooper’s office, the N.C. Republican Party said it won’t be “bullied” into adding members to an interim state elections board the party considers unconstitutional — and that a legal interpretation Cooper’s own attorney sought prevents the governor...
Published: Tuesday, January 1st, 2019 @ 3:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement announced Friday it plans to hold an evidentiary hearing Jan. 11, 2019, on alleged ballot irregularities in the race for an open seat in 9th Congressional District
Published: Monday, December 24th, 2018 @ 8:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An attorney who represented the Bladen County Improvement Association during a 2016 investigation into potential absentee ballot voting misbehavior says the organization was cleared of any wrongdoing
Published: Monday, December 24th, 2018 @ 7:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Leslie McRae Dowless, the political operative at the heart of potential absentee mail-in ballot misconduct in Bladen County, is a person of interest in the 9th Congressional District investigation, the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has confirmed
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 12:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has begun disclosing evidentiary materials related to its investigation of election fraud in the 9th Congressional District election
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 7:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The prospect Democrats will get their wish for a new election in the 9th Congressional District could be getting stronger
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 1:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Election irregularities have been an open secret in Bladen County for most of this decade
Published: Saturday, December 8th, 2018 @ 8:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement should get a little more time to reorganize as it deals with challenges to the outcome in North Carolina's 9th U.S. Congressional District race
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 8:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a bipartisan decision Friday, the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement decided to hold a public evidentiary hearing into claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities related to absentee by-mail voting and potentially other matters in the 9th Congressional District contest
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 2:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The FBI announced on Friday that it has arrested all five adults connected to the "extremist Muslim" compound in New Mexico
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 @ 12:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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District Judge Emilio Chavez dismissed all charges against three of the five "extremist Muslims" connected to the New Mexico compound on Wednesday, claiming that prosecutors did not move fast enough in the case according to the state's laws.
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 12:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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