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Covering North Carolina politics for and . Raleigh native. Campbell alum. Briefly a logo for . aspecht@newsobserver.com

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    Dec 6

    How an emerging consulting firm reached the center of the NC elections fraud controversy. , who narrowly beat an incumbent in the GOP primary and holds a lead over , would be 's biggest success story

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    Dec 29

    Oklahoma cannot block, cover, tackle, pressure, disrupt, read, or stop Alabama otherwise, it's an even game

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  3. Dec 29

    Remember when Notre Dame played well in a meaningful postseason game? I don’t either.

    Notre Dame fell to 0-6 in BCS or New Year’s Six Bowls. They’ve lost by an average of 24 points per game in those matchups.
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    Dec 29

    More of this content, please.

    So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
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    Dec 28

    Attorney for ⁦⁩ has responded this afternoon to ⁦⁩ Chair Robin Hayes regarding ⁦⁩

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    Dec 28

    6000 retweets, but it's just not accurate. They voted to keep campaign finance inquiries secret during the investigation. Please don't conflate this with election fraud issues, i.e. the current investigation into .

    Dear fellow North Carolina friends, the GOP state legislature just voted to keep investigations of election fraud secret. Now GOP politicans can rig elections without the public knowing. That's just wrong. It's pure corruption.
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  7. Dec 28

    Read for yourself: the NC elections board responds to

    Response to Harris Committee letter is now posted in "Misc. Documents" folder on the public portal:
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    Dec 28

    Responding to numerous inquiries: staff members continue to actively investigate 9th Congressional District irregularities and perform all other elections-related functions.

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  9. Dec 28

    Something to keep in mind as calls for the results to be certified.

    Elex board chair Malcolm says Harris hasn't turned over subpoenaed documents nor scheduled an interview with staff.
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    Dec 26

    Reminder to college journalists that bowl games and conferences are nonprofit corporations obligated to make their IRS Form 990 tax returns public. It's where stories like this one are lurking to be found.

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    Dec 24

    Bladen County election office gave special access to Dowless, former board member says, by ⁦⁩

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    Dec 24

    We knew about possible NC ballot fraud in ’16. Why didn’t we stop it? My column on the mess:

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    Dec 21

    I appreciate this. I would just point out that what we may consider relevant about the appropriateness of the action, may be different than what is legally relevant and permitted under law. Because they CAN do something, does not mean they should

    . reviewed a couple tweets about the race. The claims he made were mostly irrelevant to the election investigation. But they're also Mostly True.
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    Dec 21

    When Bladen Co. DA repeatedly requested info in '17 from about election fraud investigation, staff was concerned he had undisclosed conflict of interest. Sources confirm DA was dating Bladen Co. commissioner who hired McCrae Dowless

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  15. Dec 21

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    "Twice, he put the pistol on top of his desk, the barrel pointing toward the reporter." -- correspondent Greg Barnes encountered this while reporting on in Bladen County
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    Dec 21

    Valeria McKoy, interim Bladen elections director because Cynthia Shaw took a month's vacation before her retirement, tells she will not produce the emails we asked for through a public records request. We are continuing to pursue the public information.

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  17. Dec 21

    reporters: Hey it turns out the NC elections board asked the US government to investigate fraud in Bladen County as early as January 2017! Also the can now reject the gov's nominees, and he vetoed a bill that would've allowed more charter schools ... Most people:

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    Dec 21

    . just appointed Charlotte's LaWana Mayfield to the NC Human Relations Commission. Earlier this year, we fact-checked her claim about the "alleged plane" from 9/11.

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  19. Dec 21

    . reviewed a couple tweets about the race. The claims he made were mostly irrelevant to the election investigation. But they're also Mostly True.

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    Dec 21

    Great work on the story's local angle from my colleague -- one of our most-read stories of 2018:

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  21. Dec 21

    Thursday: the Bladen GOP accuses the of failing to properly alert authorities about fraud in the county Friday: letter emerges showing alerted the in January 2017

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