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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2019, file photo, Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's 9th congressional race, makes a statement before the state board of elections calling for a new election during the fourth day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th congressional district voting irregularities investigation at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh, N.C. A local prosecutor says the former North Carolina congressional candidate won’t face state charges in an absentee ballot fraud investigation that’s already led to indictments against his hired political operative and a new election.(Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, Pool, File)

N.C. prosecutor ends probe of ex-congressional candidate

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Worker at center of N.C. ballot fraud probe seeks local seat

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Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's 9th Congressional race, prepares to testify during the fourth day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th Congressional District voting irregularities investigation Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh, N.C. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, Pool)

Well-known Republicans steer clear of disputed US House race

By EMERY P. DALESIO and GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's 9th congressional race, makes a statement before the state board of elections calling for a new election during the fourth day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th congressional district voting irregularities investigation Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh, N.C. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, Pool)

GOP candidate in disputed US House race not running again

By EMERY P. DALESIO - Associated Press

Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's 9th Congressional race, prepares to testify during the fourth day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th Congressional District voting irregularities investigation Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh, N.C. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, Pool)

The Latest: New election ordered in undecided US House race

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John Harris, the son of Mark Harris, testifies during the third day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th Congressional District voting irregularities investigation Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, Pool)

New election ordered in disputed North Carolina House race

By EMERY P. DALESIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. poses for a portrait outside of his home in Bladenboro, N.C. A North Carolina elections investigator spent weeks in 2010 probing whether Dowless, the man at the center of a current scandal, was among a group of local political operatives allegedly buying votes. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: NC election fraud probed long before 2018 race

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and EMERY P. DALESIO - Associated Press

Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., poses for a portrait outside his home in Bladenboro, N.C. State investigators have described Dowless as a “person of interest” in their probe into 2018 voting irregularities involving absentee ballots. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, File)

North Carolina officials sought to charge political operator

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JONATHAN DREW and GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press