Author: Jessica Taylor / Source: NPR.org
Updated at 4:28 p.m. ET
The Republican candidate at the center of a months-long investigation into election fraud in a North Carolina congressional race won’t be a candidate for the upcoming new election that was ordered last week.
In a statement, Republican Mark Harris cited health concerns and upcoming surgery as one reason he won’t run again in the yet-to-be-scheduled race.
After last November’s election, Harris appeared to have a 905-vote lead over Democrat Dan McCready. But then the state declined to certify the race after allegations surfaced that an operative Harris had employed, McCrae Dowless, was illegally collecting absentee ballots.
Voters came forward to say that Dowless or people working for him had picked up their absentee ballots, which is illegal in North Carolina, and that they worked to avoid the State Board of Elections from finding out.
Harris had maintained since Election Day that he didn’t know about any wrongdoing. But after emotional testimony from one of his sons during a four-day hearing of the State Board of Elections last week cast doubt on his denials, the former Baptist…
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