Republican Mark Harris at late October rally in Charlotte

Republican Fight To Hang On To Contested House Seat Unravels In Astonishing Fashion

This Isn’t A Case Of Voter Fraud, This Is A Case Of Election Fraud, Perpetrated Not By Voters, But Someone Hired By The Republican Candidate

Update(s):

• Mark Harris says he will not run whenever the election do-over occurs.
• McCrae Dowless was arrested and indicted on felony election fraud charges.
• As we predicted, but sooner than we expected, Republicans, in the form of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, blamed Democrats.

It’s the last House seat still without a certified winner in last year’s Midterm Elections, and it’ll stay that way for a while longer.

North Carolina Republican Mark Harris was ahead by around 900 votes over Democrat Dan McCready on election night, but then reports started coming out that an operative working for Harris illegally collected absentee ballots and requests for absentee ballots, and may filled some in and witnessed them himself (carefully using a different color ink), or thrown some of them out.

Harris asserted he did not know a man he hired to run his absentee ballot operation, named McCrae Dowless, was a practitioner of…