It’s September 2019, but we’re only just now wrapping up the 2018 election. Voters in North Carolina’s 9th District will finish it all off on when they decide on Sept. 10 whether Democrat Dan McCready or Republican Dan Bishop will represent them in Congress.
The lagging special election was necessary because the North Carolina State Board of Elections threw out last fall’s initial results because of election fraud tied to the Republican effort and its nominee, Mark Harris.
After Election Day last year, Harris lead McCready by 905 votes. But with the mess that ensued afterward, with Republican operative Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. indicted on a host of charges tied to the fraud, Harris opted not to give it another whirl, and Bishop earned the GOP nod for the redo by winning a 10-way primary.
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