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WASHINGTON — A growing number of House Democrats on the Oversight Committee want to investigate the North Carolina 9th Congressional District race, where the close finish is being scrutinized as reports of stolen absentee ballots continue to emerge and the race has been left uncertified.

House Democrats are fast approaching a new Congress where they’ll be in the majority and able to pursue whatever investigation they like, and more and more Democrats are expressing outrage over the alleged tampering with ballots in the race in which Republican Mark Harris beat Democratic candidate Dan McCready by only 905 votes.

A third member, California Rep. Jimmy Gomez tweeted on Wednesday that he would call for the committee to investigate “as soon as local authorities are done,” calling the situation “nothing short of a subversion of democracy.”

“Are we just going to sit here twiddling our thumbs as an election is stolen in front of our eyes? This is inexcusable,” Gomez tweeted.

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