North Carolina congressional candidate Mark Harris speaks at a news conference in November. (Chuck Burton/AP)North Carolina congressional candidate Mark Harris admitted Friday that he had personally hired the aide who is now at the center of an inquiry into whether the election was tainted by fraud, saying he had no inklings of wrongdoing during the campaign. The interview was Harris’s first since the election fraud allegations were made public. I know the absentee ballot program that we entered into,” he said. Read more:The shoe-leather reporting boosting North Carolina’s explosive election fraud investigationRepublican officials had early warnings of voting irregularities in North CarolinaN.C. election officials plan hearing over fraud concerns in U.S. House race, raising possibility of new election

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2018 03:01 UTC