Link to Twitter, screencap of Fox News
First off, if they were completed ballots, it's illegal for them to have them. The law only allows the voters or close relatives to transfer the ballots.
But the story has already been clarified that the ballots were blank.
Which brings up another question. Are the rules in NC so different that political parties have access to blank absentee ballots? Do they distribute the ballots (and get to decide who DOESN'T get the ballots)? How do they determine that the person receiving the ballot hasn't already voted?
And if the rules AREN'T different in NC, if the elections office and the postal service are the only ones who should be handling ballots (aside from the voters), why were there blank ballots in their headquarters?
As I've often pointed out in various arguments about the voter ID laws, most voter fraud (even as infrequent as it is) aren't the types that are stopped by voter ID laws. Case in point, absentee ballot fraud.
And here we have a political party that claims the only form of voter fraud is voter IMPERSONATION fraud (the ONLY form of voter fraud that would be stopped by voter ID laws), with access to an unknown number of absentee ballots.
Someone gave them those ballots. Was it the printer? Or was it someone who works in the elections office?
North Carolina is a state where Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight.com) is projecting a 48.2% to 46.2% Clinton win (65% chance of Clinton winning by any margin; using the "polls plus" forecast, which includes polls plus current state of the nation). It's a toss-up state. It wouldn't take much to give Trump the state (and especially the Senate seat, which has the Republican incumbent winning by a razor-thin projected 0.1% margin).
And a Republican campaign headquarters was just found with an unknown number of blank absentee ballots.
Like I said, the laws may be different in NC. Maybe it's perfectly alright for people to have access to large numbers of absentee ballots.
Anyone in NC care to comment?