The fact that there are *also* extremely weird anomalies involving absentee ballots in the NC-9 Republican primary makes it less likely that there's any sort of innocent explanation for the irregularities in the NC-9 general election.
The simplest explanation for these irregularities is that someone associated with the @MarkHarrisNC9 campaign committed fraud involving absentee-by-mail ballots in both the primary and the general. I'm open to other explanations, but I haven't heard any yet.
In local news accounts, the person at the center of the allegations is Leslie McCrae Dowless, who worked as a contractor for Red Dome Group, which the Harris campaign paid ~$430K (per FEC filings) for its work on "grassroots" & strategy this cycle. bit.ly/2G1Yufg 
