Prominent VA politician implicated in NC GOP voter fraud deceit

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https://www.facingsouth.org/2017/04/prominent-va-politician-implicated-nc-gop-voter-fraud-deceit

An elections watchdog is calling for a criminal investigation into whether the campaign of former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, the N.C. Republican Party and their attorneys falsely accused hundreds of citizens of voter fraud in the wake of last year's election, which McCrory narrowly lost to Democrat Roy Cooper.

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Last week Democracy North Carolina released "The Deceit of Voter Fraud," a report documenting how in the aftermath of the November 2016 gubernatorial elections the McCrory-NCGOP-HVJT team had filed legal paperwork charging about 600 voters with committing fraud or casting suspect absentee ballots. Nearly all of the accusations proved false, and the watchdog group wants state and federal officials to look into whether the protest filings may have violated state and federal laws against harassing and intimidating innocent voters, corrupting the election process and obstructing an election canvass.

"The crusade did not stop even after McCrory's attorneys were told by some elections officials that their claims were wrong, that they were confusing voters' names with other people, that they were using bad data," the report says. "Instead of stopping, the attorneys caused more charges to be filed that maligned more innocent voters."

The banality of evil on full display. The GOP operatives who did this manage to be petty, monstrous and incompetent all at the same time. So sorry for the voters who had their honor besmirched. And so sorry for the pain they are inflicting on my state. Dishonestly accusing voters of fraud because you are trying to overturn election results undermines public trust in democracy. I hope they are punished. To me, this seems criminal.