Voter fraud v. election fraud

The GOP has been doing all it can to prevent voter fraud, in which a non-citizen tries to vote or a citizen tries to vote more than once. All this effort for something that happens quite rarely. But the GOP seems just fine with election fraud, messing with other aspects of the election process.

The Congressional race in North Carolina’s 9th District still hasn’t been certified. And the board that does the certifying is refusing to do so for this race. GOP candidate Mark Harris is up by just over 900 votes. It looks like the size of the election fraud is about 1300 votes.

The scandal comes down to a coordinated effort to take possession of absentee ballots. A crew went to people who had absentee ballots and offer to turn them in – and apparently also fill them out. Minorities were targeted. One piece of evidence is the signatures of witnesses on the ballots. A person would normally ask a friend or family member to witness the signature. One person rarely witnessed more than one or two ballots. But in a big batch of absentee ballots the same signatures were seen many times. Another piece of evidence is testimony of the voters. It is illegal for a third party to collect absentee ballots.

This may trigger a new election. But that would be against the same two candidates. It is also possible for the US House (to be controlled by Dems) to declare the seat vacant, which would require fresh primaries.