all north carolinians deserve to have confidence in a system of voting that ensures honest and fair elections. if politicians and the people they hire are manipulating the system to steal elections, all of us should pull together to get to the bottom of it and stop it — regardless of whether the candidate who finished ahead in a tainted election is a republican or a democrat.on january 22, 2019, wake county superior court judge paul ridgeway refused harris's request to order him seated.