In the end, everyone agreed it was election fraud

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By Amy Gardner February 23 at 8:41 AM

RALEIGH, N.C. — Since the start of a months-long investigation into evidence of election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, Republicans and Democrats have been as divided as they are across the country — disputing facts, accusing each other of political games, unable to agree.

Then something unexpected happened in Raleigh this week.

The State Board of Elections — three Democrats and two Republicans — voted unanimously to call for a new election. It might have been the first recorded instance of a federal election being thrown out over fraud.

But it wasn’t the evidence of fraud that made it happen. It was a heart-wrenching drama between an evangelical minister, who badly wanted to serve in Congress, and his lawyer son, who came forward with evidence that contradicted his father’s testimony ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-nc-a-surprise-in-the-end-everyone-agreed-it-was-election-fraud/2019/02/22/52e9f226-36c5-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.20820c51d287

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1. Trump lays on the old 'both sides'

By Philip Bump
February 22 at 5:30 PM

... the candidate in the lead, Republican Mark Harris, won’t see his victory certified. He has only his own campaign to blame. It was someone working with his campaign who allegedly collected absentee ballots that were then altered or destroyed. Harris is a Republican, though, which means other Republicans have stayed mum about his situation.

... A reporter asked <President Trump> during a meeting in the Oval Office why he hadn’t condemned the alleged fraud that took place ...

“I condemn any voter fraud of any kind, whether it’s Democrat or Republican, but when you look at some of the things that happened in California in particular, when you look at what’s happened in Texas with all of those that they recently found that were not exactly properly done, I condemn all of it, and that includes North Carolina. If anything, you know, I guess they’re going to be doing a final report, but I’d like to see the final report. But any form of election fraud I condemn” ...

... Something demonstrably bad happened in North Carolina, to the point that a nearly unprecedented event in American history will take place — but Trump equated it with a bunch of exaggerated things that he’d rather talk about ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/22/trump-lays-some-ol-both-sides-alleged-election-fraud-north-carolina/?utm_term=.6cd0bc9abadb

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. REPUBLICON Election Fraud

Most blatant in decades. Committed by RepubliCONs.