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Ray Goldfield
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« on: December 26, 2018, 12:47:11 AM »

There is no acceptable solution here but a Pittenger vs. McCready special election.
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Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas
Ray Goldfield
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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2018, 01:32:30 PM »

Predicting it now. Will the new Congress reconvenes in a week, they refused to seat Mark Harris as the winner. Fox News acknowledges indications of possible reported fraud, maybe, but their main angle is on how the new democratic majority is already over reaching their power Etc by refusing to seat a Republican, completely not even trying to explain why not seating Harris despite the evidence of fraud is somehow overreach.

Seems likely. They would be much better off by going "This scam artist stole the seat of an elected Republican, then stole the general election against a Democrat". But I doubt they're smart enough.
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Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas
Ray Goldfield
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2018, 10:18:03 AM »

As a Democrat, I neither want Harris (R), nor McCready (D) nor the defeated primary-Republican to be seated. I want NC-09 to remain vacant and a new special primary and general election to be held, which determines a winner.

And I want a tough prison sentence for the Republican guys who collected absentee ballots on their own and destroyed some of them, a hefty financial penalty of several millions to the state GOP, which is paid to the state to reform the state election system and a law that prevents such election fraud in the future.

This is the most reasonable outcome, but I would say a special election should be called as soon as possible - ideally, with the costs being billed to the guilty parties who sabotaged the election after a civil suit.
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Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas
Ray Goldfield
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 7,991


« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2018, 05:29:13 PM »

That, unfortunately, puts the kibosh on a fair and accurate redo of the election.
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