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The Ballot Box in the Creek That Broke a County Racket
The Ballot Box in the Creek That Broke a County Racket
A fisherman’s snag on December 11, 2009 pulled a waterproofed box from Cradle Creek containing 430 blank official ballots and a green ledger that tied a county printing contract to three separate rackets - and to one trusted local businessman. How did ballots end up three miles downstream, and which parts of Pender County’s government and commerce were quietly funding that scheme?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the morning Grant Wells found the box to the internal discoveries that unraveled a decade-long operation…
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