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Serial - The Improvement Association - Ep. 1: ‘The Big Shadoo’

Following a notorious case of election fraud in Bladen County, North Carolina, in 2018, the reporter Zoe Chace gets an invitation from Horace Munn, the leader of the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, a Black political advocacy group whose name was dragged into the scandal. Horace asks Zoe to come down and investigate for herself and find out who is really cheating.

The Improvement Association - Ep. 1: ‘The Big Shadoo’

From serial productions in the New York Times,

that Republicans and Democrats agree happened.

recently the last 80 years that a congressional election

because it was Republicans who did the cheating.

because it proves that election fraud does happen,

because of how personal the whole thing was,

It wasn't the result of some complex national conspiracy

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0:00.0	From serial productions in the New York Times,
0:02.4	this is the Improvement Association.
0:06.2	Prologue, other people's ballots.
0:12.6	There is one glaring example,
0:14.6	one of an election fraud case
0:17.2	that Republicans and Democrats agree happened.
0:21.8	It was 2018 in North Carolina,
0:24.2	the only time in recent history,
0:26.6	recently the last 80 years that a congressional election
0:30.6	was thrown out for fraud.
0:32.6	Democrats like to talk about this case
0:34.6	because it was Republicans who did the cheating.
0:37.2	Republicans like to talk about it
0:39.0	without mentioning who did the cheating
0:41.0	because it proves that election fraud does happen,
0:43.8	which it does.
0:45.3	Not very often, but it does.
0:47.6	I like to talk about this case
0:49.5	because of how personal the whole thing was,
0:51.9	how rooted in this one county.
0:54.4	It wasn't the result of some complex national conspiracy
0:57.9	to rig voting machines.
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The Improvement Association - Ep. 1: ‘The Big Shadoo’

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