November 28, 2016
By Tim Buckland
...Anderson's protest alleges voter fraud, (click here) claiming that absentee ballots may have been cast by a third party group.
In his protest, Anderson claims the group, called the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, "appears to have directly paid individuals to witness dozens of absentee ballots and even to fill in those ballots, including by handwriting the name of a write-in candidate for local office."
He also alleges to have witnessed a person entering the New Hanover County Senior Center, which was one of the county's five one-stop early voting sites, between the hours of 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on "multiple nights."
He further claimed that his requests to personally inspect absentee ballots was denied and that he believed the fraud he is alleging "would cast doubt on the outcome of any number of elections up and down the ballot, including the historically close race for Governor....
