GOP HQ in Hillsboro, NC was firebombed. Breaking on the TV now.

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21. Is the GOP violating NC election law?

NC Republican Office firebombed, 'Nazi' GOPers threatened in graffiti
Posted: Oct 16, 2016 6:27 PM EDT
Updated: Oct 16, 2016 6:27 PM EDT
By NBC News
... North Carolina Republican Party spokeswoman Emily Weeks told NBC News that the office is totally unusable and that materials inside, possibly including completed absentee ballots, may have been destroyed ...


Here's the law:

NCGS § 163-226.3. Certain acts declared felonies. (a) Any person who shall, in connection with absentee voting in any election held in this State, do any of the acts or things declared in this section to be unlawful, shall be guilty of a Class I felony. It shall be unlawful ... (6) For any person to take into that person's possession for delivery to a voter or for return to a county board of elections the absentee ballot of any voter, provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to a voter's near relative or the voter's verifiable legal guardian ...

NCGS § 163-231. Voting absentee ballots and transmitting them to the county board of elections ... (b) Transmitting Executed Absentee Ballots to County Board of Elections. – The sealed container-return envelope in which executed absentee ballots have been placed shall be transmitted to the county board of elections who issued those ballots as follows: (1) All ballots issued under the provisions of this Article and Article 21A of this Chapter shall be transmitted by mail or by commercial courier service, at the voter's expense, or delivered in person, or by the voter's near relative or verifiable legal guardian and received by the county board not later than 5:00 p.m. on the day of the .. election ...