Chapter One: ‘The Big Shadoo’
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Following a notorious case of election fraud in Bladen County, North Carolina, in 2018, the reporter Zoe Chace gets an invitation from Horace Munn, the leader of the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, a Black political advocacy group whose name was dragged into the scandal. Horace asks Zoe to come down and investigate for herself and find out who is really cheating.
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Let noone be surprised that this is how NC rural counties operate. while doing a get out the vote / registration drive in a rural county, I was followed by a police car every neighborhood I entered. one police car was at the entrance or exit every time. At dusk, my last knock was at the home of a Black resident who warned me that it wasn't safe for me after dark and for me to leave now. I did.