Republicans see path to dump nominee in undecided N.C. House race

Legislation quickly passed by North Carolina’s lawmakers this week would prepare a path for Republicans to dump their nominee in a still-undecided U.S. House race marred with ballot fraud allegations.
If the state elections board decides ballot irregularities or other problems cast the true outcome into doubt and force a redo, the legislation - if allowed to go into law by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper - would require new primary elections 9th Congressional District race, in addition to a new general election.
That would allow Republicans another look at Mark Harris, the Republican who led Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in unofficial results. Harris hasn’t been certified the winner and an investigation is looking into missing absentee ballots in rural Bladen County and whether unsealed ballots illegally handled by collection teams there could have been altered. Bladen was the only county among the eight within the 9th District where Harris won a majority of mail-in absentee ballots over McCready.
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