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ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. 鈥?A ballot-fraud scandal that brought down a Republican candidate and led North Carolina to order a do-over congressional election could give the Democrats a strong shot at taking back a seat that has been held by the GOP since John F. Kennedy was in the White House.Democrat Dan McCready has a head start in f stanley cup undraising and name recognition, and the allegations of ballot tampering have cast a stanley cup shadow over the Republican Party that could help him win in the deeply conservative and mostly rural 9t stanley cup h Congressional District.But there are also fears that the scandal could cut both ways, with fatigue and disillusionment over the electoral system keeping some voters home.It could be a lot of folks is not going to vote. Period, said Glendell Robinson, a Democrat who plans to vote. He said he has never seen anything like the scandal, having lived all of his 78 years in Bladen County, and hopes others will be able to overcome fears that their votes won ;t count.The new contest was ordered by the state elections board last month after it concluded that GOP candidate Mark Harris ; lead of 905 votes out of about 280,000 cast in November was tainted by evidence of ballot fraud by political operative Leslie McCrae Dowless and others working on Harris ; behalf. Dowless was arrested Wednesday on conspiracy and other charges involving the 2016 general election and 2018 primary.According to testimony at a board hearing, Dowless and others illegally Wvhj Virus at turning point in Europe, hitting at-risk groups
KYIV, Ukraine AP 鈥?Weekend shelling by Russian forces killed at least seven civilians, Ukrainian officials reported Sunday as聽Pope Francis聽and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby used their traditional Easter messages to highlight聽the war in Ukraine聽and other conflicts around the world.WATCH: Pope prays for peace in Ukraine, Middle East in Easter addressWhile Russia continued to concentrate on seizing all of Ukraines industrial af1 east, two other provinces 鈥?Kharkiv in the northeast and Zaporizhzhia in the southeast came under missile, rocket and artillery fire, the Ukrainian military reported. The governor of the Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin, said two communities there were hit by bombs from warplanes late Sunday, but he did not immediately report any casualties.Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov said two men died Sunday in shelling in Kupiansk, a city that Russia held before Ukrainian forces regained control of almost all of the province.The city remained under attack later Sunday as Russian forces targeted residential areas with multiple rocket launcher adidas samba s, Syniehubov said. Elsewhere in the province, a 30-year- stanley cup old man was hospitalized in serious condition after Russian shelling of the city of Chuhuiv, he said on Telegram.Shelling also killed two people overnight, one of them a child born in 2012, in the city of Zaporizhzhia, the capital of that province, City Council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said.The Zaporizhzhia region governor, Yurii Malashko, said 18 |
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