North Carolina elections board chairman resigns
By Amy Gardner
December 1 at 2:17 PM'
TAR HEEL, N.C. — The Democratic chairman of the state elections board in North Carolina resigned Saturday ...
Andy Penry, chairman of the nine-member State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, said .. he was stepping away to allow the investigation to continue “free of attempts at distraction and obstruction so that the truth can be revealed.”
... North Carolina Republican officials .. have pointed to his Twitter posts — which include a number of tweets highly critical of President Trump — as evidence that the .. investigation is partisan ...
“The investigation of criminal conduct and absentee voting fraud in the 2018 Republican primary and 2018 general election in congressional District 9 is a matter of vital importance to our democracy,” Penry wrote in the statement. “I will not allow myself to be used as an instrument of distraction in this investigation” ...
Penry’s decision came after the nine-member elections board — which includes four Democrats, four Republicans and one unaffiliated voter — agreed Tuesday unanimously to delay certification of the results in the 9th District election ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/north-carolina-state-elections-board-chairman-resigns-saying-he-does-not-want-his-partisan-views-to-hurt-election-fraud-investigation/2018/12/01/895ee85c-f598-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?utm_term=.ee8c3250145b
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