Why is North Carolina's 9th congressional district race still undecided?

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WASHINGTON — One of the final unresolved races of the 2018 midterm elections is about to enter into an uncertain phase, fueled by accusations of voter fraud allegedly driven by one suspected central character.

The exact path forward is unclear after the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Friday decided not to certify the initial results of the state's 9th Congressional District race between Republican Mark Harris and Democrat Dan McCready, in which Harris appears to have edged McCready by 905 votes.

The board has not publicly discussed what it knows about the case, but its decision to leave the result open came after a three-hour closed-door hearing where the nine-member board, made up of four Democrats, four Republicans and one independent, voted 7-2 against accepting the results because of what it said were "claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities" involving absentee ballots.

In a press conference Monday North Carolina Democratic Party chairman Wayne Goodwin called the board's decision not to certify the results the "right move." Goodwin said the allegations of fraud "are incredibly serious and, if true, they outline a calculated effort to illegally undermine our free elections and to sway the election in favor of a specific candidate."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-is-north-carolinas-9th-congressional-district-race-still-undecided/ar-BBQrHyf?li=BBnb7Kz

[cynatnite]

1. There's a criminal investigation now and a focus on a GOP operative. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Vote Fraud. Not votER fraud. Fraudulent votes manufactured or destroyed by a GOP scumbag.

[MiniMe]

3. Election Fraud, not voter fraud

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Uh . . . . that's kinda what I said.

[cyclonefence]

4. I heard, walking through a room where the radio was on

that in the disputed district, absentee ballots of *some* voters were helpfully picked up at their homes by "election workers," and those ballots were never heard of again. Wish I had a more definite source.

[pecosbob]

6. I hate linking to The Hill

"Ginger Eason told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, that Leslie McCrae Dowless, Jr. paid her between $75 and $100 to pick up completed absentee ballots for North Carolina's 9th District, the results of which are being officially investigated."

Word is they filled in some, they changed some and they threw some away and still managed to account for like thirty percent of the entire state's absentee ballots in that one county so it sounds to me like they created some as well.