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On Government Reform: Investigate election fraud in NC-9 district race

A House Democrat is seeking an emergency hearing as investigators in North Carolina probe allegations of election fraud in a congressional race there. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, a Democratic member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a statement that "real election fraud is playing out right before us" in North Carolina's 9th District. "Votes have been stolen by preying on senior and minority voters, and now a cloud of doubt and suspicion hangs over this election result," he said.

The call for a congressional probe comes as North Carolina's elections board and local officials investigate the possibility that a man working for Republican candidate Mark Harris' campaign--who got 905 more votes than Democrat Dan McCready in the race--used absentee ballots to alter the vote in Bladen County. The NC State Bureau of Investigations is probing whether absentee ballots were gathered ballots in areas considered to be supportive of McCready but never turned them in.

Source: CNN.com coverage of 2018 Congress VA-11 election Dec 5, 2018

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