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Joseph Ratliff filed this request with the State Board of Elections of North Carolina.
Submitted Sept. 16, 2019
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From: Joseph Ratliff

Subject: North Carolina Public Records Law Request: Untitled

Email


To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the North Carolina Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:

Any and all documents, emails, memorandum, and reports from September 8-12, 2018 concerning the special election.

The district in question has seen recent claims and evidence of voter fraud and suppression:

"McCready is a former Marine who ran last year for the same 9th Congressional District seat. He narrowly trailed his 2018 Republican opponent, Mark Harris, but the election results were invalidated after evidence of election fraud surfaced. A political consultant for Harris was accused of ballot tampering, and Harris opted not to run again. McCready said Tuesday that North Carolina voters 'faced down the full force of election fraud and voter suppression.' He says, 'When the people in power sought to silence the voices of the voters, stole their ballots, forged signatures from them, filled in vote choices for them. we fought back and we won.'"

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-gops-murphy-wins-seat-of-congressman-who-died/2019/09/10/d15f7604-d42b-11e9-8924-1db7dac797fb_story.html

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days.

Sincerely,

Joseph Ratliff

From: State Board of Elections

Subject: Your public records request

Email

Hi Mr. Ratliff,

Could you please provide search terms that we could use in searching our database for these records? Without that, we assume that pulling all emails from those days will result in an extremely large volume of emails and records that will all have to be reviewed and redacted of any confidential information. As soon as you provide search terms, we will conduct the search and provide those records.

Thanks,

Pat

Patrick Gannon
PIO
O: (919) 814-0765
M: (984) 204-0767
[logo_rec_elections]<http://www.ncsbe.gov/>

On Sept. 16, 2019:
Subject: North Carolina Public Records Law Request: Untitled

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the North Carolina Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:

Any and all documents, emails, memorandum, and reports from September 8-12, 2018 concerning the special election.

The district in question has seen recent claims and evidence of voter fraud and suppression:

"McCready is a former Marine who ran last year for the same 9th Congressional District seat. He narrowly trailed his 2018 Republican opponent, Mark Harris, but the election results were invalidated after evidence of election fraud surfaced. A political consultant for Harris was accused of ballot tampering, and Harris opted not to run again. McCready said Tuesday that North Carolina voters 'faced down the full force of election fraud and voter suppression.' He says, 'When the people in power sought to silence the voices of the voters, stole their ballots, forged signatures from them, filled in vote choices for them. we fought back and we won.'"

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-gops-murphy-wins-seat-of-congressman-who-died/2019/09/10/d15f7604-d42b-11e9-8924-1db7dac797fb_story.html

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days.

Sincerely,

Joseph Ratliff

From: State Board of Elections

Subject: Request

Email

Hello,

Do you have search terms we can use for your records request?
Best,
Noah Grant

From: State Board of Elections

Subject: RE: Your public records request

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Mr. Ratliff,

I am following up one more time to ask for search terms for this request. If we do not hear back, we will consider this request closed. Feel free to contact me at this email address or at either phone number below.

Could you please provide search terms that we could use in searching our database for these records? Without that, we assume that pulling all emails from those days will result in an extremely large volume of emails and records that will all have to be reviewed and redacted of any confidential information. As soon as you provide search terms, we will conduct the search and provide those records.
Thanks,

Pat

Patrick Gannon
Public Information Director
O: (919) 814-0765
M: (984) 204-0767
[logo_rec_elections]<http://www.ncsbe.gov/>

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