cox has 50.4% of the vote. moving to north carolina, the result there s there of the congressional race are locked in a standstill. the state s board of elections voted not to certify the results of the district nine race over claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities involving absentee ballots. gop candidate harris hassing a slight advantage over the democrat mccready. data shows their absentee ballot return rate at more than 7% which is the highest in the
the results of a north carolina congressional race are locked in a standstill after accusations of election fraud. the state s board of elections voted friday not to certify the initial results of the district 9 race between republican mark harris and the democrat over quote claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities involving absentee ballots. election night results shows harris a slight advantage over the democrat but there were red flags about rural baladen county where the results showed harris racked up a winning margin of more than 1500 votes, more than any other republican in the county. data also shows that their absentee ballot return rate at
this is interesting. 73% of active duty, military personnel voted. 67% of absentee ballot return rate. you know what that means. one-third did not get the absentee ballots back. 17% said they never got the absentee ballot they wanted. and eric, at fox news, at our voter fraud at foxnews.com i got a ton of e-mails from the military members around the world who said we asked the local office for absentee ballot. i never got one and couldn t vote. how the we make sure they do vote? one thing implemented other than a new law to significantly improve it is the electronic delivery options. being able to send ballots via e-mail. another critical aspect is there were express mail delivery options as well. it will improve as we continue to move forward.
local offices to make sure the absentee ballot requests are made in a timely manner. eric: the defense department has an office that deals with that. they have given us a statement. that is the office of the federal voting assistance program. director is bob kerry. here is the statement he gave to fox news in part. some of the statement. the department of defense has been proactive in identifying the challenges with military voting. the department is aware of the military voter protection project report. understands that the report is based on the raw data reported by the states. preliminary data from the department post election survey shows increase in military voter participation from 2006 to 2010. at a rate that may exceed voter participation of the general population. however, he says the data is still under analysis. so what is underp analysis, take a look at what they said about the 2008 election. this is interesting. 73% of active duty, military personnel voted. 67% of absent