Attorneys for Democratic 9th Congressional District candidate Dan McCready are asking the North Carolina State Board of Elections to issue 48 subpoenas.
[SPECIAL SECTION: District 9 investigation]
[OPEN for the full list of 48 people and reasons why subpoenas are requested]
Attorneys are asking for the subpoenas to compel attendance at the Jan. 11 evidentiary hearing into election fraud in the 9th District.
Attorneys suggest summoned witnesses be afforded the right to plead the Fifth rather than be provided immunity for testimony.
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“In the NC-9 GOP election fraud investigation, we have asked the State Board of Elections to subpoena 48 individuals to attend the January 11 hearing,” attorney Marc Elias wrote on Twitter. “Board should draw all logical inferences if a witness fails to attend or takes the 5th.”
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McCrae Dowless, Republican 9th Congressional District candidate Mark Harris, Red Dome’s Andy Yates, Harris campaign manager Jason Williams, Bladen County Sheriff James McVicker, former Charlotte City Council candidate Pete Givens, NCGOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse and NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes are among the 48 people attorneys for McCready requested subpoenas be issued to.
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In addition to the 48 people, attorneys for McCready say they may call four additional people as witnesses, but they are not requesting subpoenas to be issued to them.
The four people include former Bladen County Board of Elections Vice Chair Jens Lutz and Harvard professor Dr. Stephen Ansolabehere.
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