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Support, but that -- but numerically it could not have changed the outcome of the race then mr. harris needs to be certified. >> earlier today "the washington post" reported that both his party, that's the republicans, and a regional political director for the national republican congressional committee were warned of voting irregularities in the county during the primaries. as john mentioned. the nrcc denies those reports. raised concerns about his re-election campaign two years ago. let me get back to leeann. it seems to me the question is, if there is taint here, if her was cheating, crimin...

His home county. now he's at the stcenter of thi fraud investigation that could overturn the district race for district 9. the voting irregularities and include possible vote fraud that could have affected the outcomes in three elections. among the allegations, more than a thousand absentee ballots from likely democratic voters were gathered and destroyed. >> you're looking at several thousand or approximately 2,000 absentee ballot requests from this most recent election, about 40% of those it appears at this point may not have been returned. >> reporter: lauren freeman, the district attorney ...

County, over 60% of the absentee by mail ballots requested were not returned. the concern is what happened to those ballots, but more importantly, with the affidavits that have come out through the state democratic party, concerns by voters about potential ballot tampering by those who were going around to collect ballots, which is illegal in north carolina. i think a lot of this is all kind of tied together to absentee by mail balloting in the ninth congressional district. >> i know you had some other things to say about this today. you had called the allegations rumors about unproven voting ...

The voting irregularities in north carolina's ninth district congressional race are part of a criminal investigation that began in january and include possible vote fraud that could have affected the outcomes in three elections. among the allegations, more than 1,000 absentee ballots from likely democratic voters were gathered and destroyed. >> you're looking at several thousand or -- approximately 2,000 absentee ballot requests from this most recent election. about 40% of those, it appears at this point, may not have been returned. >> reporter: lauren freeman, the district attorney for wake c...

District keeps getting stranger. today the editorial board of the state's largest newspaper "charlotte observer" as election fraud allegations and other voting irregularities in the house race between republican mark harris and democrat dan mccrede. harris leads by just 9505 votes. leeann caldwell is there. this just keeps getting stranger and stranger. what have you found since you've been there? >> sure, kasie, i'm in bladen county, north carolina. at issue is hundreds of absentee ballots were illegally collected. we spoke to one of those women who said that someone came by her house to coll...