RALEIGH, N.C. (WLOS) — The State Board of Elections (NCSBE) released a statement after a guest on a Fox News show spread what it calls "false information" about North Carolina elections.
In a news release, state election officials say Russell Vought went on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Wednesday, Aug. 10, claiming to have documents revealing "there is systemic voter fraud being done in North Carolina at the State Board of Election level and the DMV, to incentivize illegal immigrants voting in the election, which they're not supposed to do."
The state says the guest referenced a 2021 letter from then-Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina G. Norman Acker III.
What Vought failed to mention, according to the NCSBE, was that a 2017 audit by the State Board of Elections is what started the investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office.
Officials said the guest also didn't mention the NCSBE's response letter, written by Director Karen Brinson Bell. The letter explained the temporary issue with pre-population of the citizenship question on voter registration forms offered at DMV offices had been resolved about five years earlier and affected a small number of registrants.
The NCSBE says Vought’s statements lead any viewer to believe the issue is ongoing, although the issue was corrected six years ago. Officials said he also suggested that the issue was intentional, a claim they call "categorically false."
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