RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina’s Republican Party chairman said Tuesday that the state should order a new election in an unresolved congressional race if an affidavit alleging some early voting totals were improperly shared before Election Day is accurate.
The state Democratic Party gave the affidavit of Agnes Willis, a Bladen County precinct worker and registered Democrat, to the elections board two weeks ago. Willis wrote that vote tallies were printed out at Bladen’s in-person early voting site after the site closed for good on the Saturday before Election Day and were reviewed by people who were not election judges.
“It is my understanding that this was improper,” Willis wrote in the Nov. 29 affidavit.
FILE – In this Sept. 26, 2018 file photo republican Mark Harris, left, and democrat Dan McCready, right, listen to instructions during a Habitat For Humanity building event in Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina’s Republican Party chairman said Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 that the state should order a new election in an unresolved congressional race if an affidavit alleging some early voting totals were improperly shared before Election Day is accurate. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, file)State GOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse told reporters in Charlotte the party is “pretty certain” the vote tallies were leaked but didn’t explain how it knew. Providing such data to outsiders could help political campaigns with get-out-the-vote strategies, he said.
“The people involved in this must be held accountable and should it be true, this fact alone would likely require a new election,” state Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes said in a news release.