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Today, Explained

Fraud, actually

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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One man in North Carolina may have swung an election by defrauding voters. But North Carolina is interested in stopping a different type of voter fraud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There are all sorts of things you can do around the holidays for people.

0:03.0

You can make a charitable donation in someone's name.

0:07.2

You can buy someone a goat in someone's name.

0:11.0

You can also give them a quip electric toothbrush.

0:14.2

You can find out more at getquip.com slash explained

0:17.6

where your first set of refills is free.

0:26.8

David Graham, you're a staff writer for the Atlantic.

0:28.8

You've become the unofficial North Carolina correspondent for today.

0:31.4

Explain the midterm elections have been over for more than a month now.

0:35.2

But there's still a big midterm story in North Carolina.

0:39.6

What's going on there?

0:40.6

One election still has not been officially certified.

0:43.5

And that's in the ninth congressional district.

0:45.4

There are accusations of a massive election fraud

0:48.4

and they're investigating and we're not sure what's going to happen.

0:51.1

How close was that election?

0:52.6

905 votes.

0:54.2

Damn.

0:56.5

So how people find out that something suspicious might have happened there in that election?

1:00.7

Well, this is one of the weirder things is that there was nothing weird apparent initially.

1:05.3

You know, the election came and went.

1:07.3

Mark Harris, the Republican appeared to have won.

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