North Carolina dissolves state elections board amid ongoing 9th District dispute
This is pure chaos.
LINDSAY GIBBS
DEC 28, 2018, 4:01 PM
On Friday at noon, the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement officially dissolved under a court order, just two weeks before the evidentiary hearing over possible absentee ballot fraud in the November election for the Ninth District’s congressional seat.
Last month in the 2018 midterm elections, Mark Harris, the Republican nominee in the district, appeared to defeat Dan McCready, the Democratic candidate, by 905 votes. However, the elections board refused to certify the results after allegations surfaced that a contractor for Harris’s campaign illegally paid workers to go to voters’ homes and pick up their absentee ballots in Bladen and Robeson Counties. The board launched an investigation into the matter, which has already involved 100 interviews and at least 182,000 pages of records.
Due to the dissolution of the board, there’s a possibility that this highly-anticipated January 11 hearing about the lone remaining undecided seat in the U.S. House of Representatives will have to be postponed.
It’s important to note that the board is not being dissolved because of the allegations of election fraud. Earlier this year, a three-judge panel ordered that the current make-up of the board — a combined nine-person election and ethics board — is unconstitutional, and ordered that the board must revert to a five-person election board and an eight-person ethics board.
https://thinkprogress.org/north-carolina-dissolves-state-elections-board-amid-ongoing-9th-district-dispute-3922845008e4/
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It is highly unlikely that any representative from North Carolina’s Ninth District will be sworn in along with the rest of Congress on January 3. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), vying for the speakership once more, has already said she won’t seat Harris unless his victory is certified by North Carolina.
If the election remains un-certified next week, and the board of elections is still vacant, the new Democrat-led House could launch its own investigation into the matter, via the House Administration Committee. According to The New York Times, that committee has the authority to investigate the election, issue subpoenas, determine a winner, or even call for a new election, if deemed necessary.
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That the biggest, wealthiest democracy in the world hasn't been able to figure clean elections out in the last 20 years 
along the way.................
I visited Australia a couple times....IIRC, I think they have mandatory voting, clean finance laws for the campaigns, etc. I'm also a fan of eliminating the electoral college, eliminating gerrymandering, and implementing instant runoff elections (like we saw in Maine). Transparency is the way to go. I guess it wouldn't stop Facebook or other efforts to divide and suppress us, but that could be worked on, too. A lot to do....
