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One Man Asked For Nearly 600 Absentee Ballots In Bladen County
WUNC ^ | 12/6/2018 | Jason Debruyn

Posted on 12/06/2018 7:30:45 AM PST by mooncoin

One man – McCrae Dowless – filed in-person requests for 592 absentee ballots at the Bladen County Board of Elections in the month's leading up to this year's midterm election.

That's more than twice any other single applicant and accounts for 44 percent of the 1,341 in-person absentee ballot requests made at the Bladen County Board of Elections.

(Excerpt) Read more at wunc.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: democrats; election; midterm; northcarolina
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To: ExTexasRedhead

There should be no more:

early voting
absentee voting
provisional voting
ballot harvesting

Plus nationwide:

citizenship check
voter ID
cross referencing to check multi-state voting

Irish people have to fly back to Ireland to vote. Why can’t we?


21 posted on 12/06/2018 7:52:24 AM PST by mooncoin
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To: mooncoin

More than 90% of absentee ballots were requested by 5 people.


22 posted on 12/06/2018 7:52:42 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: mooncoin

I visited my aunt in the nursing home. I saw a letter on her nightstand that turned out to be an absentee ballot. I asked her if she had asked for one and she said no. I then asked her if she knew who she wanted to vote for and she said yes. So, I read out the candidates and marked the ones she wanted to vote for. Then I hand delivered the ballot to the voter place for her.


23 posted on 12/06/2018 7:54:14 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: mooncoin
This North Carolina thing is all handwaving, deflection and "whataboutism".

All you have to do is look at the sh*tflies who are pushing this Narrative in the national Media and on Twitter - The Washingsnot Pest and @JuddLegum [Legum is a sort of Poor Man's version of Sid "The Squid" Blumenthal].

It's all meant to change the subject and distract from The Big Steal in Carolinafornia.

24 posted on 12/06/2018 7:54:17 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Rather than worry about a House seat here and there, California should be purged from the Union. With Sanctuary cities and state and crap an urine on the streets of San Francisco there is ample evidence that California lecks American values.

Yes , yes, I know and very much appreciate that all Californians do not advocate shuch. Very well, once purged, counties can petition for reunification and on validation of real conservative American values purged of the leftwingist dogma, can be reunited.

America will never be America so long as California exists in the current form.


25 posted on 12/06/2018 7:54:34 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

None of the newly elected Democrats, or any Democrat that was elected by a less that 7 point margin should be seated in the new Congress.

Every Democrat marked ballot should be investigated, by the Justice Department.


26 posted on 12/06/2018 7:54:58 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: Ann Archy

Requesting isn’t illegal. Turning in multiple ballots is


27 posted on 12/06/2018 7:56:29 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: kiryandil

I will gladly give up one house seat if it means we can get rid of this atrocity called absentee voting, provisional voting, non-citizen voting, and “I can’t get a voter ID even if I beer all the time” voting.

Absentee voting should only be for the military. Period.


28 posted on 12/06/2018 7:56:47 AM PST by mooncoin
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To: mooncoin

1) This guy, and others, asked for and were issued the absentee ballots. That they gave their names and election officials gave them the ballots implies that this was legal.
2) It would be perfectly legal to recruit legally registered voters to support your candidate, and supply them with absentee ballots for their use, so long as those persons filled out/signed the absentee ballots themselves, and did not vote a second time.
3) Does the article present a scintilla of evidence otherwise, or of any crime?
4) That omission is not proof that vote fraud didn’t occur. By all means, follow up on what really happened with these AND ALL OTHER ABSENTEE VOTES IN THE DISTRICT. 5) My impression: This whole narrative is FAKE NEWS deployed to try to steal or taint another Republican’s victory.


29 posted on 12/06/2018 8:03:14 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: DaveA37

“Early voting, absentee ballots and such ALL need to be ELIMINATED.”

Some of us have family & work obligations which take us out of the state or the country on voting day.

Do you wish to disenfranchize us?

Your “About” page gives no clue to your background. Taking a wild guess, does the “A37” refer to the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly? If so and you were a pilot/ground crew or mechanic then you were probably stationed/deployed away from your polling place at some time on Voting Day.

For those of us who were/are, cut us some slack and let us use the right we’ve personally fought for.

“People sleep peacefully in their beds at night (and are free to vote) only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”


30 posted on 12/06/2018 8:05:11 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: RetiredArmy
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31 posted on 12/06/2018 8:15:14 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: bert; ExTexasRedhead
And then there's New York, where, if you want to apply for a gun permit...you would need to hand over to the police your password(s) for your social media so that they can search your 1st Amendment right to see if you will be allowed to keep your 2nd Amendment right.

But only if they approve of your speech.

Gun permit seekers would see social media searched under New York bill

ALBANY - Prospective handgun owners in New York could be required to turn over the passwords to their major social-media accounts for a search if a newly introduced bill becomes law.

The bill from Sen. Kevin Parker, D-Brooklyn, would require all gun-permit applicants to allow their social-media accounts and search-engine history to be scrutinized for hateful slurs and terroristic threats prior to receiving a handgun permit or having one renewed in New York.

If approved, the bill would allow an investigating officer — in most cases, a local police authority — to obtain "any log-in name, password or other means" necessary to review the applicant's social media accounts and search history.


32 posted on 12/06/2018 8:17:22 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: mooncoin

Some research on how many election boards are controlled by democrats would explain how this happens. It’s not a coincidence.


33 posted on 12/06/2018 8:19:00 AM PST by robel
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To: rxsid

Start soliciting financial support for an organized campaign to get the Marxists out of office at the first opportunity. Or, better yet, dig their dirt and expose their corruption so they have to resign early.


34 posted on 12/06/2018 8:33:00 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: kingu

re: “more than twice”

If you actually read the article you will see that another person an requested absentee ballot 230 times. Another person, 185 times.


35 posted on 12/06/2018 8:39:05 AM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: DaveA37
...Early voting, absentee ballots and such ALL need to be ELIMINATED...

So you are for disenfranchising a lot of eligible voters? Good to know.

36 posted on 12/06/2018 8:43:44 AM PST by deport
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To: mooncoin

This should require reballoting


37 posted on 12/06/2018 8:52:59 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ..

hopefully, ‘we have it all’...


38 posted on 12/06/2018 9:07:39 AM PST by bitt ("Let justice be done though the heavens fall".)
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To: Chewbarkah

so when you request an absentee ballot, it’s just an empty ballot that anybody can fill out and return? But do they just hand it to you, or is it mailed? You don’t have to request it FOR a specific person? I’ve never voted absentee, so i have no idea how this works. And i suppose it varies from state to state.


39 posted on 12/06/2018 9:08:04 AM PST by ptcmama
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To: Chewbarkah

State records show that beginning in 2009, at least seven Democratic and Republican candidates paid him for work in local and state races, including campaigns for the Legislature, district attorney and county sheriff. Separately, campaign finance records in Mecklenburg County showed that Mr. Dowless worked for a City Council candidate in Charlotte, the state’s largest city. (NYTimes article)


40 posted on 12/06/2018 9:22:07 AM PST by Bookshelf
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