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From Serial Productions in the New York Times, this is the Improvement Association.

Prologue Other People's Ballots.

There is one glaring example, one, of an election fraud case that Republicans and Democrats

agree happened.

It was 2018 in North Carolina, the only time in recent history, recent like the last 80

years, that a congressional election was thrown out for fraud.

Democrats like to talk about this case because it was Republicans who did the cheating.

Republicans like to talk about it without mentioning who did the cheating because it proves that election fraud does happen, which it does.

Not very often, but it does.

I like to talk about this case because of how personal the whole thing was, how rooted in this one county.

It wasn't the result of some complex national conspiracy to rig voting machines.

It was individual people in a tight-knit place, using their relationships

to either make money or take revenge or both.

It looks like this.

In the midterm election of 2018, this guy Mark Harris, white, Republican, former Baptist pastor,

ran for Congress in North Carolina.

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