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In the same Thursday edition of NBC Nightly News where White House correspondent Geoff Bennett proclaimed that President Trump was “stoking his manufactured voting fraud crisis,” correspondent Morgan Radford cried racism as the force behind why a black man in North Carolina had his mail-in ballot rejected. But she would later admit that he didn’t have a witness signature and had the opportunity to correct the mistake and send it in again.
Radford opened her report with an interview with the man who grew up in the Jim Crow era, and voting was very important to him:
MORGAN RADFORD: Christopher Gibson says he's voted in every election. But this year in North Carolina he voted by mail for the first time.
CHRISTOPHER GIBSON: Voting is very important. I grew up in the Jim Crow era.
RADFORD: You decided you were going to vote no matter what.
GIBSON: If I had to crawl. If I had to crawl, I would have gone.
“But his mail-in ballot was rejected,” she told viewers as the on-screen headline read: “Key battleground rejects high number of black mail-in votes.”
Of course, the implication was the Republican-controlled state was targeting black people for so-called “voter suppression.” But the reality was far more mundane, and Radford had no choice but to admit it. “He was missing a witness signature,” she said.
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