In late 2018, Bladen County, N.C., became the focus of election integrity. The sweeping, rural county with sandy soil in southeastern North Carolina had long been a place where legal get-out-the-vote operations tiptoed toward illegal ballot-harvesting conquests.
That November, the North Carolina State Board of Elections finally took action, in the biggest of races: They voted to not certify the results of the 9th Congressional District race, in which the Republican candidate beat out the Democrat by 905 votes.
The following February, after a four-day hearing, the candidate who won, Republican Mark Harris, said in a stunning testimony that he believed there was enough evidence of fraud that the results should be thrown out and a new election should be called. It’s believed to be the first time in modern political history that a congressional contest was thrown out due to fraud.
If you only knew that, and you wanted to believe the false claims of widespread fraud in U.S. elections today, you might think Bladen County supports your side.
But here’s what actually happened: Ballot-harvesting operations were permitted to run amok because the U.S. attorney was too busy chasing false claims of fraud to chase real ones.
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