$150 per 50 absentee ballots
Well, wow. Systematic voter fraud in North Carolina…on behalf of oh you’ll never guess, not in a million years.
A North Carolina woman testified Monday that she illegally picked up and falsified absentee ballots in a 2018 congressional election under the direction of a political operative who was working on behalf of the race’s Republican candidate.
In the first day of the North Carolina State Board of Elections hearing into election irregularities in the 9th District race, Lisa Britt detailed how the operation worked. The race is the last undecided contest from the 2018 midterm election and the North Carolina seat remains open amid allegations of fraud.
The state board of elections voted not to certify the results in which Republican Mark Harris, a Baptist minister, led Democrat Dan McCready, a businessman and retired Marine, by 905 votes. The decision to not certify stemmed from the board’s investigation into bizarre results involving absentee ballots.
Lisa Britt said Harris was not aware of the fraud.
Britt stated she was paid at least $150 per 50 absentee ballots she collected. Collecting absentee ballots is illegal in North Carolina.
She also admitted that she signed absentee ballots as a witness when she did not witness the voter filling it out. Britt said she forged her mother’s signature on between seven and nine ballots to “not raise red flags” that the same people were signed as witnesses on too many absentee ballots.
Britt said she did all of this under the instruction and often supervision of Dowless.
Britt testified that, following the election, Dowless invited workers to his home and told them not to admit to collecting ballots.
Then last week he sent them a letter telling them how to testify – which was to say nobody did anything everybody is innocent plus taking the 5th. (I think you have to choose between those two.)
The trial continues.
Even Trump is usually smart enough to do his witness tampering and obstruction of justice verbally rather than leaving a paper trail.
Screechy, that may not be Trump being smart; it may be Trump not able to string two words together in writing.
I am not surprised that the land of my birth has fallen to such venal corruption as we’ve seen over the last decade. It was one of the first to roll back Reconstruction a century before that. I can’t say that I’m sad to have left and never returned.
$3.00 per ballot for a gubernatorial race? I wonder how much Hilary paid for those three million “illegal” votes she won by? Too bad they didn’t take…
I know, the pay is pathetic, isn’t it.
iknklast, as with many things Trump, I think there is a certain crude animal cunning behind it. Even during the election, with all the fuss over HER EMAILZZZ, I recall Trump smugly declaring that he never sends emails because he’s seen how other people get burned that way during discovery in civil cases. And he’s not wrong — people do get burned. It’s just that most people in today’s business world don’t have the option of avoiding email communication (or other electronically traceable forms).
After all, we know he tweets, so it’s not like he can’t use an electronic device to type messages, however crude and incoherent they may be.