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The state legislators donned flashy bow ties and ceremoniously plucked the name of one North Carolina county from a sequined, light-up, red, white, and blue party hat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The lucky winner would be the subject of a probe into voting machines<\/span>. <\/b>Experts say the proposed investigation follows a troubling national trend: discrediting the 2020 election with no evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The legislators, members of the House Republicans\u2019 Freedom Caucus, chose to focus their effort on Durham County, a donjon of Democratic voters, via \u201crandom drawing.\u201d They hope to investigate whether modems connect state voting machines to the internet, which they say would allow votes to be remotely altered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The state election board is unlikely to grant the Freedom Caucus members access to the voting machines. Laws prohibit random tampering with the equipment, and the Freedom Caucus members have failed to present substantive evidence of malpractice. As election authorities and Democratic legislators condemn the Freedom Caucus\u2019s proposed investigation, North Carolina politics experts see similarities between what\u2019s going on here and national efforts to discredit election results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey fit certainly the Trump attack on election integrity,\u201d Catawba College political scientist Michael Bitzer told The 9th Street Journal. \u201cWhat proof do the Republicans have that the machines were hooked up?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Republicans likely feel pressure to prove to election-doubting Trump supporters that they are looking into alleged fraud, he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

John Hood, president of the John William Pope Foundation, a Raleigh-based conservative grant-making charity, echoed concerns that the proposed investigation is part of a broader movement to delegitimize elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s part of the national attempt by some to further the claim that the 2020 election was either stolen or rigged,\u201d Hood said. \u201cThat claim is entirely without foundation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the recent press conference, Rep. Jeff McNeely (R-Iredell) said the investigation was supported by \u201cmany, many millions of accusations\u2026 of machine tampering and votes being switched because of modems.\u201d He threatened to use criminal charges and the General Assembly police to push the investigation, a warning <\/span>WRAL reported<\/span><\/a> he has since backed away from.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After McNeely suggested he and the Freedom Caucus have a right to investigate the voting equipment, Durham Democrat Rep. Zack Hawkins took to the House floor to disagree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are not welcome in Durham County,\u201d Hawkins said. Durham County elections director Derek Bowens and State Board of Elections director Karen Brinson Bell said they do not plan on granting the Freedom Caucus members access to Durham\u2019s voting machines,<\/span> The News & Observer reported<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Damon Circosta, the state election board\u2019s chair, told The 9th Street Journal that state laws passed by the now Republican-controlled General Assembly prohibit the board from complying with the Freedom Caucus\u2019s demands. The state board already provides opportunities for the public to view voting machine certification, he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese extra processes that threaten criminal charges and use of the Capitol Police aren\u2019t serious. If there\u2019s a serious discussion to be had, that serious discussion needs to follow a process \u2014 a process they haven\u2019t engaged in so far,\u201d said Circosta, a registered Democrat appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper.<\/span><\/p>\n

The regular inspections show that the state\u2019s voting equipment doesn\u2019t have modems, he said. State law prevents voting machines from being connected to the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Circosta said unproven election fraud assertions help create a pretense to pass laws that prevent more people from voting.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I believe this is a playbook for those who wish to discredit prior and, frankly, future elections,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not part of our policy \u2014 nor should it be \u2014 to allow elected officials to start ad-hoc tampering with election equipment.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Circosta also noted that the Freedom Caucus representatives picked Durham County, one of the counties with the highest rate of participation among Black and Democratic voters, using a selection method lacking public verification: picking a scrap of paper out of a party hat.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Durham County selection stuck out to Bitzer, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf they were going to pick one county to focus on, it would make sense to pick Durham County from a Republican point of view,\u201d the political scientist said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hood said the consequences of efforts to discredit the 2020 election have already been felt and that public opinion on the issue is hard-fixed. He shared doubts that any investigation into North Carolina\u2019s voting equipment will follow the Freedom Caucus\u2019s announcement. Fears about election fraud will fade over time, and discussion about it will, too, he predicted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bitzer said he doesn\u2019t know how the Freedom Caucus members could gain access to the voting equipment without bringing the Durham County Board of Elections into the Legislature for a hearing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The move is a dangerous part of a larger, ongoing battle between the Republican-controlled legislature and the Democrat-controlled state elections board, Bitzer said. Freedom Caucus members previously<\/span> tried unsuccessfully to gain access<\/span><\/a> to voting machines for inspection in July.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen there is no credible evidence attacking the election system, but you have such strong partisan tribalism going on, it\u2019s a dangerous mix for the health and wellbeing of this experiment in popular democratic rule,\u201d Bitzer said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Circosta said the calls for investigation come after the \u201cmost secure and most accurate election in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d He added there is \u201cabsolutely\u201d no validity to the election fraud claims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disturbing. It\u2019s hypocritical. And it\u2019s fundamentally against the principles of the Constitution of the country,\u201d Circosta said.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the top: Jeff McNeely spoke at a Freedom Caucus press conference, where he \u201crandomly\u201d picked Durham County\u2019s name for a planned voting machine investigation out of a sequined, light-up red-white-and-blue party hat. Screenshot taken from WRAL’s video stream.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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